Kellogg Valley
| Kellogg Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kellogg Valley is a 1400 m high and largely ice-free valley in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range , it lies between Mount Boreas and Mount Aeolus . The valley opens north to the McKelvey Valley, 500 m below .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1997 to the couple Thomas B. Kellogg and Davida E. Kellogg, geologists from the University of Maine , who carried out numerous campaigns between 1976 and 1990 on the glacial history of the region around McMurdo Sound, including the McMurdo Ice Shelf , the Ross Ice Shelf , the Ross Sea and the Antarctic Dry Valleys .
Web links
- Kellogg Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kellogg Valley on geographic.org (English)