Hale Valley

Hale Valley (79°52′S 156°40′E / 79.867°S 156.667°E / -79.867; 156.667Coordinates: 79°52′S 156°40′E / 79.867°S 156.667°E / -79.867; 156.667) is the northernmost of three largely ice-free valleys that trend east from Midnight Plateau in the Darwin Mountains of Antarctica. This valley is immediately south of Kennett Ridge. It was named after Mason E. Hale, a lichenologist at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian), Washington, D.C., who worked about six austral summers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys beginning around 1980.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Hale Valley". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-05-16.

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