Malin Valley
| Malin Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Malin Valley is one of the Antarctic dry valleys in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the eastern part of the Olympus Range , it is on the west side of Mount Cerberus . To the north it opens to the Victoria Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 2004 after the geologist Michael C. Malin of Arizona State University , who was involved in the study of erosion in the Antarctic dry valleys from 1983 to 1994 as part of the United States Antarctic Program .
Web links
- Malin Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Malin Valley on geographic.org (English)