McKay Valley
| McKay Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Darwin Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 79 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The McKay Valley is a valley in the Darwin Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains . It is the central of three ice-free valleys east of the Midnight Plateau .
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 .
Web links
- McKay Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McKay Valley on geographic.org (English)