House Creek
Coordinates: 77 ° 39 ′ S , 162 ° 45 ′ E
The House Creek is a 1.5 km long glacial melt water flow in the Taylor Valley of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . From a height of 350 m it flows from the northeast flank of the Suess glacier in a southerly direction along the base of this glacier to the northwest corner of Lake Chad .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1996 after the hydrologist Harold R. House of the United States Geological Survey , member of the Long Term Ecological Research Program for four Antarctic summer campaigns from 1993, who helped establish measuring stations at the tributaries of Lake Bonney and Lake Hoare was involved.
See also
Web links
- House Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- House Creek on geographic.org (English)