New College Valley
| New College Valley | ||
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 13 ′ 15 ″ S , 166 ° 26 ′ 15 ″ E | |
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The New College Valley is a non-iced valley on the Antarctic Ross Island . It lies between the cliffs above Caughley Beach and around 300 m east of the Mount Bird ice cap . It contains glacial moraines made from basalt and sweat slag . Some meltwater streams flow through the valley to the Ross Sea . Numerous types of algae , lichens and mosses are represented here.
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2001 after the University College in Oxford in compensation for the geographical objects in the Antarctic dry valleys , which are named after facilities at the University of Cambridge .
Web links
- New College Valley in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)