Muchmore Valley
| Muchmore Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Darwin Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 79 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 10 km | |
The Muchmore Valley is a 10 km long valley in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Darwin Mountains , it lies between the Haskell Ridge and the Colosseum Ridge . The otherwise icy valley is free of ice at the head end, as the ice masses from the neighboring Midnight Plateau do not flow there sufficiently.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2001 after the American physician Harold George Muchmore (1920-1995), who from 1973 to 1983 played a key role in the long-term biomedical study of the influence of the conditions at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on scientists working there was.
Web links
- Muchmore Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Muchmore Valley on geographic.org (English)