Feature Name (see definition): Stuiver Valley

Feature Class (see definition): Valley

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 17417

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 77° 29' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 161° 01' 00" E

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -77.4833333

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 161.0166667

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1997

Description (see definition): 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 Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1997 after Minze Stuiver, geochemist, Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington, Quaternary specialist in dating Antarctic samples with U.S. Antarctic Research Program (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).

Date Created (see definition): 09/24/1998

Date Edited (see definition): No data