Rodriquez Pond

Rodriquez Pond () is a freshwater frozen pond in the Labyrinth of

Wright Valley The Wright Valley, named for Sir Charles Wright, is the central one of the three large Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains, located west of McMurdo Sound at approximately . Wright Valley contains the Onyx River, the longest river in Ant ...

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 ...

. The pond is the larger of the two ponds that lie west of

Hoffman Ledge Hoffman Ledge () is an arcuate flat-topped ridge, long and wide, located west of Dais Col in the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. The relatively level ledge rises to and is bounded west and north by Healy Trough; clif ...

Healy Trough Healy Trough () is a primary elongate trough in the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, extending diagonally SW-NE across the east part of the feature. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2004) after Terry R. Heal ...

. It is just southeast of smaller Redman Pond. Named by

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 ...

(US-ACAN) after Russell Rodriquez,

U.S. Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and ...

, Seattle, WA; member of a

United States Antarctic Program The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...

(USAP) party that sampled the pond in 2003–04. Lakes of Victoria Land McMurdo Dry Valleys {{McMurdoDryValleys-geo-stub