Meier Valley (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Meier Valley (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Valley
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
running NE-SW between Shumskiy Cove and Hinks Channel, Arrowsmith Peninsula, Loubet Coast, was partly surveyed from the S by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1948-50; photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Dr Mark Frederick Meier (b.1925), USGS geologist and glaciologist who made the first detailed study of strain all over the surface of a glacier, on Saskatchewan Glacier, Alberta, in 1952; President, International Commission on Snow and Ice, 1967-71 (APC, 1960, p.6; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978).
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