Murphy Valley
| Murphy Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Murphy Valley is one of the Antarctic dry valleys in East Antarctic Victoria Land . The high valley is located on the northeast side of Mount Booth in the eastern section of the Olympus Range . To the north it opens to the Victoria Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2004 after the American mapping engineer Kenneth W. Murphy Jr. of the United States Geological Survey , who was part of the satellite-assisted survey team at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station during the Antarctic winter campaigns of 1981 and 1987 .
Web links
- Murphy Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Murphy Valley on geographic.org (English)