Harris Valley
| Harris Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Allan Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 38 '0 " S , 159 ° 52' 0" E | |
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The Harris Valley is a valley in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Allan Hills , it is immediately east of Coxcomb Peak .
The valley was explored in 1964 by a team working in the Allan Hills as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program . It named it after the British paleobotanist Thomas Maxwell Harris (1903–1983) in recognition of his work on the flora of the Mesozoic Era .
Web links
- Harris Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Harris Valley on geographic.org (English)