Wharton Creek

Coordinates: 77 ° 39 ′  S , 162 ° 45 ′  E

Wharton Creek​

Antarctic

The Wharton Creek is a 1000 m long melt flow of water in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Taylor Valley, it flows from the southern edge of the Suess Glacier in a north-easterly direction to Lake Chad .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1996 after the biologist Robert A. Wharton Jr. of the Desert Research Institute in Reno , who was a senior scientist in the McMurdo Long Term Ecological Research Project (MCM LTER) of the National Science Foundation , who started doing pioneering work in 1978 carried out the biofilms in Lake Hoare .

See also

• List of rivers in Antarctica

Web links

• Wharton Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Wharton Creek on geographic.org (English)