Saunders Valley
| Saunders Valley | ||
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| location | Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Windbach | |
| Mountains | South mountains | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 12 '50 " S , 58 ° 58' 18" W | |
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| climate | sub-Antarctic - oceanic tundra climate | |
| flora | gappy moss and lichen tundra | |
The Saunders Valley is a valley on the Fildes Peninsula of King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . It lies in the southern half of the peninsula and runs one and a half kilometers (0.9 miles ) east-southeast towards Hydrographers Cove . After geological work by the British Antarctic Survey in the 1975/76 season, it was named in 1977 by the British Antarctic Place-names Committee (APC) after the geologist Andrew David Saunders (* 1951) from the University of Birmingham .
On a Brazilian map from 1984 the valley is labeled as "Córrego Wind" - apparently a translation of the name Windbach (-tal) on a map published in the same year by Dietrich Barsch (Geographical Institute of Heidelberg University ) and Gerhard Stäblein (Geomorphological Laboratory of Free University of Berlin ). In the Antarctic summer 1983/84 a German team led by Persch and Stäblein carried out extensive hydrological and geomorphological studies in the valley .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Saunders Valley in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed January 24, 2018
- ↑ a b c d Saunders Valley (GBR) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed January 24, 2018
- ↑ reprinted again in the work of Barsch et al. 1985 on page 14
- ^ Dietrich Barsch, Wolf-Dieter Blümel, Wolfgang-Albert Flügel, Roland Mäusbacher, Gerhard Stäblein and Wolfgang Zick: Investigations on the periglacial on the König-Georg-Insel, South Shetland Islands / Antarctica. German physiogeographic research in the Antarctic. Report on the 1983/84 campaign. Polar Research Reports No. 24, November 1985, pages 32 and 37-47; Maps p. 14 and 39. hdl: 10013 / epic.10024.d001 , accessed July 24, 2018