Papitashvili Valley
| Papitashvili Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Apocalypse Peaks , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 22 ′ 49 ″ S , 161 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Papitashvili Valley is a high valley in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies between the Wendler Spur and the Besson Spur in the Apocalypse Peaks . To the north it opens to the Barwick Valley across from Hourglass Lake . The valley is ice-free apart from a glacier at the head end.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2005 after Vladimir O. Papitashvili (* 1946) from the Research Laboratory for Space Physics at the University of Michigan , who was involved in a US-Russian research program for the collection of magnetometric data on the Mirny from 1994 to 1999 . Station was active.
Web links
- Papitashvili Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Papitashvili Valley on geographic.org (English)