Wensleydale Valley
| Wensleydale Valley | ||
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| location | Deception Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 57 ′ 1 ″ S , 60 ° 42 ′ 24 ″ W | |
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The Wensleydale Valley is a wide valley on Deception Island in the South Shetland Archipelago . It lies north of the Wensleydale Beacon between the Punta Wensley headland and Laguna Hill .
The British geologist Donald Durston Hawkes (* 1934) carried out a geological mapping of the valley in 1961 . Polish scientists named it in 1999 based on the name of the neighboring Wensleydale Beacon.
Web links
- Wensleydale Valley in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)