McKelvey Valley
| McKelvey Valley | ||
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 Taylor Glacier topographic map with McKelvey Valley |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The McKelvey Valley is a valley between the western part of the Olympus Range and the Isle of Range in East Antarctic Victoria Land .
It was named on the occasion of a 1958-1959 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions . It is named after Barrie Cooper McKelvey (* 1937), a geologist from Victoria University and participant of the expedition, who had already carried out initial geological research work in the valley between 1957 and 1958 as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).
Web links
- McKelvey Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McKelvey Valley on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 974 (English).