Stuiver Valley
| Stuiver Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Stuiver Valley is a 1400 m high and mostly ice-free valley in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range , it lies between Mount Circe and Mount Dido in the west and Mount Boreas in the east.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1997 after the Dutch-American geochemist Minze Stuiver (* 1929), who from 1969 had made a major contribution to the glacial development of the United States Antarctic Research Program using the radiocarbon method he improved Reconstructing the region around McMurdo Sound and the Antarctic Dry Valleys .
Web links
- Stuiver Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stuiver Valley on geographic.org (English)