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Doran Stream () is a meltwater stream, long, flowing north from
Doran Glacier Doran Glacier () is a glacier between Sollas Glacier and Marr Glacier on the north slope of the Kukri Hills, Victoria Land. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1997 from association with Doran Stream, which flows north fr ...
east of
Sollas Glacier Sollas Glacier is a glacier between Marr and Hughes Glaciers, flowing from the Kukri Hills toward the east end of Lake Bonney in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of ...
to
Priscu Stream This is a list of rivers of Antarctica. Although they are variously named rivers, creeks or streams, those listed are technically all meltwater streams. Table References {{Antarctica Rivers Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's so ...
in
Taylor Valley Taylor Valley is the southernmost of the three large McMurdo Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica, located west of McMurdo Sound at approximately . The valley extends from Taylor Glacier in the west to McMurdo So ...
,
Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...
. It was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...
in 1996 after
Peter Doran Peter T. Doran, Ph.D. is Professor of Geology and Geophysics and John Franks Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University. Prior to 2015, he was faculty in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Doran specialize ...
, a paleolimnologist currently an endowed chair at Louisiana State University, who has conducted studies of the paleolimnology and climate of the
McMurdo Dry Valleys The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of largely snow-free valleys in Antarctica, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound. The Dry Valleys experience extremely low humidity and surrounding mountains prevent the flow of ice from nearby ...
since 1993.


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Rivers of Victoria Land McMurdo Dry Valleys {{McMurdoDryValleys-geo-stub