White Valley
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 Topographic map of the Crary Mountains with the White Valley |
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Crary Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 117 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The White Valley is a wide and icy valley in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the northern part of the Crary Mountains , it lies between the Trabucco Cliff and the Lie Cliff .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the valley using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1960. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1975 after the ionospheric physicist Franklin E. White, who was part of the United States Antarctic Research Program operated on Byrd Station in four Antarctic summer campaigns between 1966 and 1971 .
Web links
- White Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- White Valley on geographic.org (English)