McKay Creek

Coordinates: 77 ° 39 ′  S , 162 ° 45 ′  E

Lawson Creek​

Antarctic

The McKay Creek is a 250 m long meltwater flow in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Taylor Valley, it flows from the Suess Glacier in an east-northeast direction to Lake Chad .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1996 after the planetologist Christopher P. McKay (* 1955) from NASA , who had carried out limnological investigations in the Hoare Sea from 1982 onwards, doing pioneering work in the field of year-round data acquisition on the ecology of the Antarctic dry valleys .

See also

• List of rivers in Antarctica

Web links

• McKay Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• McKay Creek on geographic.org (English)