Lawson Creek (Antarctica)
Coordinates: 77 ° 43 ′ S , 162 ° 16 ′ E
The Lawson Creek is a 400 m long melt flow of water in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Taylor Valley, it flows from the southwestern tip of the Rhone Glacier to the northwestern section of Lake Chad .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1996 after the New Zealand glaciologist Wendy Julia Lawson of the University of Canterbury , who led an expedition to explore the Taylor Glacier that ran from 1992 to 1993 .
See also
Web links
- Lawson Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lawson Creek on geographic.org (English)