Sharp Valley
| Sharp Valley | ||
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| location | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 51 '19 " S , 58 ° 4' 45" W | |
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The Sharp Valley is a small valley with northeast-southwest orientation on James Ross Island in the Antarctic Weddell Sea . It is located 1.5 km east-southeast of Stoneley Point .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1983 after Michael Colin Sharp (* 1951), who was field research assistant for the British Antarctic Survey from 1981 to 1982 in the area.
Web links
- Sharp Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sharp Valley on geographic.org (English)