Shaw Trough
| Shaw Trough | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Wright Valley , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Shaw Trough is an elongated valley basin in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies with west-east orientation in the north of the plane called the labyrinth in the Wright Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2004 after the Canadian geographer John Shaw from the University of Alberta , who worked together with the New Zealand geoscientist Terry R. Healy (1943 / 44-2010) from the University of Waikato from 1975 to 1976 dealt with the geological development of the labyrinth on site.
Web links
- Shaw Trough in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shaw Trough on geographic.org (English)