Thomas Valley
| Thomas Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Thomas Valley is one of the Antarctic dry valleys in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies on the eastern flank of the McClelland Ridge in the eastern section of the Olympus Range of the Transantarctic Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 1997 after the American cartographer Jean-Claude Thomas from the United States Geological Survey , who in the same year played a key role in the creation of maps of the Antarctic dry valleys using satellite images.
Web links
- Thomas Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Thomas Valley on geographic.org (English)