Huey Gully
| Huey Gully | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Huey Gully is a high-altitude and steep-walled gorge in East Antarctica Victoria Land . On the north face of the Taylor Valley , it lies between Mount Keohane and Mount Falconer . Part of the ice masses of the Commonwealth Glacier lie in this gorge and belong to the headwaters of Huey Creek .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the gorge in 1997 based on the name of the meltwater river of the same name. Its namesake are helicopter type Bell UH-1 , unofficially Huey , the VXE-6 called as part of the squadron to support the work of the United States Geological Survey in Taylor Valley were in use.
Web links
- Huey Gully in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Huey Gully on geographic.org (English)