Sanford Valley
| Sanford Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Sanford Valley is one of the Antarctic dry valleys in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies with north-south orientation between the mountain ridges Nottage Ridge and McClelland Ridge in the eastern section of the Olympus Range of the Transantarctic Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 1997 after the American topography engineer Leroy L. Sanford, who was part of the United States Geological Survey team between 1971 and 1972 , whose work was carried out in an area of 6,000 km 2 between 160 ° and 164 ° longitude east and latitude 77 ° 15 ′ and 77 ° 45 ′ south led to the creation of eight topographical maps published by the survey in 1977 on a scale of 1: 50,000.
Web links
- Sanford Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sanford Valley on geographic.org (English)