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Victoria Valley is one of the larger
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 ...
in
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 ...
.
Lake Vida Lake Vida is a hypersaline lake in Victoria Valley, the northernmost of the large McMurdo Dry Valleys, on the continent of Antarctica. It is isolated under year-round ice cover, and is considerably more saline than seawater. It came to public at ...
is the largest lake of the valley. The Victoria River drains the
Victoria Upper Glacier Victoria Upper Glacier () is a glacier occupying the upper northwest end of Victoria Valley in Antarctica. It is a retreating glacier. The Victoria Valley is the northernmost of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Melt water from the glacier feeds the Victo ...
, with Upper Victoria Lake just below it and northwest of Lake Vida, into Vida Lake on its western side.
Lake Thomas Lake Thomas is a meltwater lake that is circumscribed on the northwest and northeast sides by Robertson Ridge and Clark Glacier (Antarctica), Clark Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for ...
is east of Lake Vida.


See also

* Dry Valleys Geology Valleys of Victoria Land McMurdo Dry Valleys {{McMurdoDryValleys-geo-stub