Ward Valley
| Ward Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 78 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Ward Valley is a dry valley in the Denton Hills of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies between the Porter Hills and the Xanadu Hills and east of the lower end of Ward Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 1994 in connection with the Ward Glacier and Ward Lake after the Australian geologist Leonard Keith Ward (1879-1964).
Web links
- Ward Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ward Valley on geographic.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonard Keith Ward. Entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography (accessed February 15, 2016).