Feistmantel Valley () is a
fossiliferous
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...
valley lying south of
Shimmering Icefield and west of
Mount Watters Mount Watters () is a massive peak westward of Scythian Nunatak in the Allan Hills, Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from a ...
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 th ...
,
Oates Land, Antarctica. It was reconnoitered by the
New Zealand Antarctic Research Program
The New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme (NZARP) was a research program that operated a permanent research facility in Antarctica from 1959 to 1996. It was created by the Geophysics Division of New Zealand's Department of Scientific and Indust ...
Allan Hills Expedition (1964), who named it after Professor
Otokar Feistmantel, 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 stages ...
flora.
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References
Valleys of Oates Land
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