Moraine Valley
| Moraine Valley | ||
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| location | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 42 ′ 36 ″ S , 45 ° 36 ′ 36 ″ W | |
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The Moraine Valley (English for moraine valley ) is a 1.2 km long and with moraine rubble filled valley on the east side of Signy Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . To the north it opens to the Elephant Flats . In the Antarctic summer months, a meltwater flow from the ice slopes at the southern end of the valley flows through it.
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it in 1947 and named it descriptive.
Web links
- Moraine Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Moraine Valley on geographic.org (English)