Lyons Creek
Coordinates: 77 ° 44 ′ S , 162 ° 16 ′ E
The Lyons Creek is a 1.5 km long meltwater flow in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows in a northeasterly direction along the southern flank of the Taylor Glacier into the western end of Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1996 after the US geologist William Berry Lyons from the University of Alabama , who had studied the geochemistry and paleolimnology of the rivers and lakes in the Antarctic dry valleys from 1985 onwards .
See also
Web links
- Lyons Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lyons Creek on geographic.org (English)