Ong Valley
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 Topographic map sheet with the Miller Range (top left) and the Ong Valley |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Miller Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 83 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 8 kilometers | |
The Ong Valley is an 8 km long and mostly ice-free valley in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Miller Range , it is immediately west of Kreiling Mesa .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 1966 after the engineer John S. Ong, who was involved in the traverse to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station from 1962 to 1963 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program .
Web links
- Ong Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ong Valley on geographic.org (English)