Name details

Stuiver Valley

Stuiver Valley (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Stuiver Valley  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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United States Gazetteer Id 132286

Feature type: Valley (2g)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A high (1,400 m) hanging valley, largely ice free, between Mount Circe and Mount Dido on the W and Mount Boreas on the E, in the Olympus Range, Victoria Land. Named by US-ACAN in 1997 after Minze Stuiver, geochemist, Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington, Quaternary specialist in dating Antarctic samples with USARP from 1969 to the time of naming; authority on the glacial history of the McMurdo Sound region and McMurdo Dry Valleys, the location of this valley (not completed).

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Location

Latitude:
77° 29' 00.0" S
-77.48333°
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Longitude:
161° 01' 00.0" E
161.01667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-1997

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