McKnight Creek
Coordinates: 77 ° 36 ' S , 163 ° 16' E
The McKnight Creek is a 1.5 km long glacial melt water flow in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Taylor Valley, it flows from the lower end of the Commonwealth Glacier in a south-westerly direction to the east end of Lake Fryxell , which it reaches between the Lost Seal Stream and Aiken Creek .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1992 after the American hydrologist Diane Marie McKnight (* 1953), head of the team of the United States Geological Survey , which examined the river system of Lake Fryxell between 1987 and 1994.
See also
Web links
- McKnight Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McKnight Creek on geographic.org (English)