Plumstead Valley
| Plumstead Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Allan Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Plumstead Valley is a valley in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Allan Hills it lies at the north end of Shipton Ridge east of the Kirkaldy Spur .
The valley was explored in 1964 by a team working in the Allan Hills as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program . This named it after the South African palaeobotanist Edna Plumstead (1903-1989) in recognition of her work on Antarctic fossils of the seed fern order of the Glossopteridales .
Web links
- Plumstead Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Plumstead Valley on geographic.org (English)