Shangri-La Valley

This article covers the valley on Lagotellerie Island. For the similarly named valley in East Antarctica, Victoria Land, see Shangri-la (East Antarctica) .

Shangri-La Valley
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location	Lagotellerie Island ( West Antarctica )
Geographical location	67 ° 53 '15 "  S , 67 ° 23' 28"  W Coordinates: 67 ° 53 '15 "  S , 67 ° 23' 28"  W.

The Shangri-La Valley is a small, grassed valley in northeastern Lagotellerie Island in Marguerite Bay before Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula .

Herwil M. Bryant (1916–2003), a participant in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941), explored it between 1940 and 1941. Because of the lush vegetation, he named it after the fictional place of longing Shangri-La from James Hiltons published in 1933 Novel The Lost Horizon .

literature

• John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1398 (English)

Web links

• Shangri-La Valley in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)