Shackleton Valley
| Shackleton Valley | ||
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 9 '8 " S , 36 ° 43' 45" W | |
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The Shackleton Valley is a wide valley on the north coast of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . From Stromness Harbor it runs in a west-northwest direction.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1991 after the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton , who succeeded in crossing South Georgia for the first time in the course of his endurance expedition (1914-1917) in May 1916 together with Thomas Crean and Frank Worsley .
Web links
- Shackleton Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shackleton Valley on geographic.org (English)