Conant Valley is a valley between

Duncan Bluff Duncan Bluff () is a steep rock bluff along the north side of Hatherton Glacier. It rises to between Corell Cirque and Conant Valley in the Darwin Mountains. In association with the names of communication workers grouped in this area, it was name ...

and Communication Heights in the southern part of the

Darwin Mountains The Darwin Mountains is a group of mountains between the Darwin and Hatherton glaciers in Antarctica. Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for Major Leonard Darwin, at that time Honorary Secretary of the R ...

; the valley mouth opens to

Hatherton Glacier Hatherton Glacier is a large glacier flowing from the Antarctic polar plateau generally eastward along the south side of the Darwin Mountains and entering Darwin Glacier at Junction Spur. It was mapped by the Darwin Glacier Party of the Commonwe ...

. It was named after Neil Conant, communications operator in support of the

United States Antarctic Program The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...

in 15 austral summers, 1984–2001; three summers were at

Siple Station Siple Station was a research station in Antarctica (), established in 1973 by Stanford's STAR Lab, to perform experiments that actively probed the magnetosphere using very low frequency (VLF) waves. Its location was selected to be near the Earth' ...

in the 1980s, the remainder at South Pole Station.

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* Valleys of Oates Land {{OatesLand-geo-stub