Wake Valley
| Wake Valley | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Neptune Range , Pensacola Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 83 ° 53 '32 " S , 56 ° 14' 41" W | |
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The Wake Valley is a valley in Queen Elizabeth Land, West Antarctica . In the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains , it is the more northerly of two valleys on the northwest side of the Mount Hawkes massif . A narrow, east-west oriented mountain ridge separates it from an outlet glacier of the Iroquois Plateau .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2011. It is named after James Wake of the British Antarctic Survey , who worked as a field research assistant in the area from 2009 to 2010.
Web links
- Wake Valley in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)