Garwood Valley
| Garwood Valley | ||
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 Garwood Valley to the northwest of the map sheet |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 78 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Garwood Valley is a valley that opens directly south of Cape Chocolate to the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land. It is one of the Antarctic dry valleys , apart from the Garwood Glacier at the upper end of the valley, it is ice-free. Melt water from the Garwood and Joyce glaciers is drained into the Ross Sea via the approximately 13 km long Garwood River . Under a 10 to 20 cm thick layer of sediment, there are remains of the Ross Ice Shelf in the lower approx. 7 km of the valley .
Thomas Griffith Taylor , leader of the western group in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , named it after the British geologist Edmund Johnston Garwood (1864-1949).
Web links
- Garwood Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Garwood Valley on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joseph S. Levy et al. a .: Accelerated thermokarst formation in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica . In: Scientific Reports . July 2013, doi : 10.1038 / srep02269 .