McKay Valley

McKay Valley (79°53′S 156°40′E) is the central of three largely ice-free valleys that trend east from Midnight Plateau in the Darwin Mountains of Antarctica. It was named after physicist Christopher P. McKay, of the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, who carried out investigations in the McMurdo Dry Valleys concerning micrometeorology, thickness of ice in frozen lakes, stability of ground ice, in 15 austral summers beginning in about 1980.[1]

References
  1. "McKay Valley". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-09-07.

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