Greenville Valley
| Greenville Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Greenville Valley is a large and mostly ice-free valley in the Convoy Range south of the Elkhorn Ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . A short side tongue of the Northwind Glacier flows west to the entrance of the valley. At the head end there is a breakthrough to the neighboring Merrell Valley .
The New Zealand Northern Group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) explored the valley in 1957 and named it after the USNS Greenville Victory , a cargo ship of the US associations in McMurdo Sound from 1956 to 1957.
Web links
- Greenville Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Greenville Valley on geographic.org (English)