Mullins Valley
| Mullins Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 6 km | |
The Mullins Valley is a 6 km long and 1646 m high Antarctic dry valley in Victoria Land . As one of the few dry valleys, it contains rock glaciers with surface ice that is up to 4 million years old. The glacier structure is similar to that in the Arsia Mons region on the planet Mars .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 1992 after the geophysicist Jerry L. Mullins of the National Science Foundation and the United States Geological Survey , who coordinated the research program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winters between 1989 and 1994.
Web links
- Mullins Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mullins Valley on geographic.org (English)