Palisade Valley
| Palisade Valley | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 79 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| height | 1000 m | |
| length | 3 km | |
The Palisade Valley is a 3 km long and 1000 m high valley in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Brown Hills of the Cook Mountains , it is 5 km northeast of Bastion Hill on the southwest side of the Pleasant Plateau . Over its entire length, it is dominated by an exposed storage aisle of dolerite .
Participants in a campaign by New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions, which lasted from 1962 to 1963, explored the valley and named it after the similarity of the dolerite camp with the Palisades formation on the Hudson River near New York .
Web links
- Palisade Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Palisade Valley on geographic.org (English)