Martin Valley
| Martin Valley | ||
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 16 ′ 44 ″ S , 36 ° 19 ′ 8 ″ W | |
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The Martin Valley is a valley on the north coast of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . On the Barff Peninsula , it runs in a northeast-southwest direction between Rookery Bay and Cumberland East Bay .
The valley was originally known as the Three Lakes Valley , which today has its equivalent on Signy Island in the South Orkney Archipelago . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1988 after Stephen John Martin (* 1955) head of the British Antarctic Survey station in Grytviken from 1980 to 1982.
Web links
- Martin Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Martin Valley on geographic.org (English)