Walnut bars
| Walnut bars | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Taylor Valley in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 40 ′ S , 162 ° 46 ′ E | |
The walnut bar is a mountain ridge in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends Taylor Valley from the Sollas Glacier to Lake Chad .
The British geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963), participant of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , named the ridge after the Swiss geologist and glaciologist Fritz Nussbaum (1879-1966) von of the University of Bern .
Web links
- Nussbaum Riegel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nussbaum Riegel on geographic.org (English)