Kistler Valley
| Kistler Valley | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Forrestal Range , Pensacola Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 82 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 51 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Kistler Valley is a largely icy valley in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains it lies between the Sapp Rocks and the Forlidas Ridge in the east-central part of the Dufek massif and ends in the basin between the Nutt Bluff and the Preslik Spur .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 2001 after the geologist Ronald Wayne Kistler (* 1931) who, together with Arthur B. Ford, researched the geochronology and petrology of the intrusion of the Dufek massif from 1979 to 2000 .
Web links
- Kistler Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kistler Valley on geographic.org (English)