Soerling Valley
| Soerling Valley | ||
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 22 '0 " S , 36 ° 18' 36" W | |
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The Sörling Valley is an ice-free valley in the north of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It lies between Cumberland East Bay and Hound Bay at the base of the Barff Peninsula .
The South Georgia Survey took surveys between 1951 and 1957 . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after Erik Sörling from the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm , who built up the zoological collection on South Georgia there between 1904 and 1905.
Web links
- Sörling Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sörling Valley on geographic.org (English)