Murray Dry Valley
| Murray Dry Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 39 ′ S , 170 ° 6 ′ E | |
Murray Dry Valley ( English for Murray dry valley ) is the misleading name of a low plateau on the Pennell coast of East Antarctica Victoria Land . It is located south of Cape Kløvstad between Protection Cove and Colbeck Bay on the Murray Glacier .
Victor Campbell , head of the northern group on the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913), named it after the name of the neighboring glacier. Its namesake is the British oceanographer John Murray (1841-1914), participant of the Challenger expedition (1872-1876).
Web links
- Murray Dry Valley in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)