Feistmantel Valley () is a
fossiliferous valley lying south of
Shimmering Icefield Shimmering Icefield () is an icefield between the Shipton and Tilman Ridges in the Allan Hills, Oates Land in East Antarctica. It was reconnoitered in 1964 by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme's Allan Hills Expedition, who gave the name ...
and west of
Mount Watters Mount Watters () is a massive peak westward of Scythian Nunatak in the Allan Hills, Victoria Land. Reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) Allan Hills Expedition
Allan may refer to:
People
* Allan (name), a given nam ...
in the
Allan Hills
The Allan Hills are a group of hills at the end of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in Oates Land and Victoria Land regions of Antarctica.
They are mainly ice free and about long, lying just north-west of the Coombs Hills near the ...
,
Oates Land
Oates Land is a region of Antarctica. It is variously defined as a portion of the East Antarctica near the coast stretching along and inland from the Oates Coast (see map) and as an officially delineated wedge-shaped segment of the Australian A ...
, Antarctica. It was reconnoitered by the
New Zealand Antarctic Research Program Allan Hills Expedition (1964), who named it after Professor
Otokar Feistmantel
Otokar Eduard Franz Karel Feistmantel (other spellings include Otakar Feistmantl) (20 November 1848 in Stará Huť – 10 February 1891 in Prague) was a Czech-Austrian (born in Bohemia) geologist and paleontologist who studied in Prague and Berlin ...
, who made pioneering studies of
Gondwana
Gondwana () was a large landmass, often referred to as a supercontinent, that formed during the late Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) and began to break up during the Jurassic period (about 180 million years ago). The final st ...
flora.
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References
Valleys of Oates Land
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