Level Valley () is a distinctive ice-free valley which descends northeastward from the

Pivot Peak Pivot Peak () is a prominent conical peak, 2,470 m, distinguished by a large northeast cirque and as the highest point in Wilkniss Mountains, Victoria Land. The New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition ...

cirque A (; from the Latin word ') is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic , meaning a pot or cauldron) and (; ). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform ...

, in the

Wilkniss Mountains Wilkniss Mountains () is a prominent group of conical mountains, long running north–south, located east-southeast of Mount Feather, Quartermain Mountains, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The mountains are wide in the north portion where Mount ...

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 ...

, Antarctica. The name does not refer to the local topography, but is one of a group of names in the area associated with surveying applied in 1993 by the

New Zealand Geographic Board The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) was established by the New Zealand Geographic Board Act 1946, which has since been replaced by the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008. Althoug ...

, a surveyors "level" being an instrument designed primarily to furnish a horizontal line of sight.

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Valleys of Victoria Land Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-geo-stub