Roaring Valley
| Roaring Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 78 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Roaring Valley ( English for Brausendes Tal ) is a valley filled with moraine rubble in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is on the north side of Mount Dromedary in the Royal Society Range . The valley was once traversed by merging glaciers that rise northeast and north of Mount Kempe and Mount Dromedary.
Participants in a campaign from 1960 to 1961 as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions gave the valley a descriptive name in memory of the prevailing strong winds that destroyed the expedition camp at the entrance to the valley.
Web links
- Roaring Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Roaring Valley on geographic.org (English)