Miers Valley () is a valley in 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 ...
located just south of
Marshall Valley
Marshall Valley () is a small valley in Antarctica, ice free except for Rivard Glacier at its western head. It is long, and wide, and lies between Garwood Valley and Miers Valley on the coast of Victoria Land. The valley is open to the Ross Se ...
and west of
Koettlitz Glacier
Koettlitz Glacier is a large Antarctic glacier lying west of Mount Morning and Mount Discovery in the Royal Society Range, flowing from the vicinity of Mount Cocks northeastward between Brown Peninsula and the mainland into the ice shelf of McMurdo ...
, on the coast of
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
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
. The valley is ice-free in the Austral summer except for
Miers Glacier
Miers Valley () is a valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys located just south of Marshall Valley and west of Koettlitz Glacier, on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The valley is ice-free in the Austral summer except for Miers Glacier and Adam ...
and
Adams Glacier in its upper (western) part,
[ and ]Lake Miers
Lake Miers () is a small lake in Miers Valley, Antarctica, lying east of the snouts of Miers Glacier and Adams Glacier, and filled by meltwater from these glaciers. A stream from the lake flows down the valley in the warmest weather to reach t ...
near its center. Penance Pass connects it to the valley of Shangri-la
Shangri-La is a fictional place in Asia's Kunlun Mountains (昆仑山), Uses the spelling 'Kuen-Lun'. described in the 1933 novel ''Lost Horizon'' by English author James Hilton. Hilton portrays Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, ge ...
.
It was mapped and named by Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, , (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated ''Terra Nov ...
's British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13,[ possibly after Edward J. Miers, a marine biologist from the ]British Museum (Natural History)
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum an ...
who examined crustacea from the ''Erebus'' and ''Terror'' expeditions.[ A hut stood in the valley from 1984–94.][
Miers Stream () is named in association with Miers Valley. A small elevated valley called ]The Altiplano
The Altiplano () is a small elevated valley between Findlay Ridge and Miers Valley. It was named by a New Zealand Geographical Society (NZGS) field party to the area, 1977–78, after the much larger intermontane plateau of the Andes Mountains
...
sits roughly between Findlay Ridge Findlay Ridge () is a broad ridge which rises to between Miers Valley and Hidden Valley in the Denton Hills of the Scott Coast, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board (1994) after New Zealand geologist Robert ...
and Miers Valley.
References
Valleys of Victoria Land
McMurdo Dry Valleys
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