Jacobsen Valley ( bg, долина Якобсен, ‘Dolina Jacobsen’ \do-li-'na 'ya-kob-sen\) is the shallow valley in

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, descending northwards from the summit of

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Mount Vinson (4892 m). It is 3.5 km long and 1.2 km wide, and is bounded to the west by Branscomb Peak and Galicia Peak, and to the east by a minor ridge running between the east side of Mount Vinson to the south and

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to the north. Draining the valley is a glacier tributary to Branscomb Glacier, part of the classical route to the summit Mount Vinson. The valley is named after the Norwegian woman pioneer of Antarctica

Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen (8 October 1913 – 25 October 1996)Gravminner i Norge.
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(1913–1996), the first native child of the Antarctic region born in

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on 8 October 1913.

Location

Jacobsen Valley is centred at . US mapping in 1961, 1988 and 2007.

Maps

Vinson Massif.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988. * D. Gildea and C. Rada. Vinson Massif and the Sentinel Range. Scale 1:50 000 topographic map. Omega Foundation, 2007.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Jacobsen Valley.
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica. Valleys of Antarctica Bulgaria and the Antarctic Landforms of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub