Marshall Valley
| Marshall Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 78 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Marshall Valley is a small valley between the Garwood Valley and the Miers Valley on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . Apart from the Rivard Glacier at the upper end of the valley, it is ice-free.
The New Zealand team that explored the region around the Blue Glacier on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named it after Eric Marshall (1879-1963), doctor and member of the southern group on the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909 ) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Marshall Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Marshall Valley on geographic.org (English)
Map sheet Mount Discovery from 1962 (new edition 1988), Marshall Valley in the north of the map west of the center