Torrent Valley
| Torrent Valley | ||
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| location | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 59 '9 " S , 57 ° 55' 15" W | |
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The Torrent Valley ( English for Sturzbachtal ) is a valley at the base of the Ulu Peninsula in the northwest of the West Antarctic James Ross Island . It extends from the ice field below the striking cliffs east-southeast of Massey Heights to Shrove Cove .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1993 after a stream that flows through the valley covered by two separate ice fields and emerges 500 m downstream from an ice cave in the form of a delta on a plain.
Web links
- Torrent Valley in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)