Merrell Valley
| Merrell Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Merrell Valley is a long, narrow and ice-free valley in the Convoy Range in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It runs from its head end immediately east of Mount Gunn in a northerly direction and merges into the Greenville Valley .
The New Zealand Northern Group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) mapped the valley in 1957 and named it after the USNS Private Joseph F. Merrell , a cargo ship of the US associations in McMurdo Sound from 1956 to 1957.
Web links
- Merrell Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Merrell Valley on geographic.org (English)