North Fork
The Wright Valley is a large east–west trending valley, formerly occupied by a glacier but now ice free except for Wright Upper Glacier at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Don Juan Pond and Don Quixote Pond.
Don Juan Pond
Lake
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Don Juan Pond is a small and very shallow hypersaline lake in the western end of Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica, 9 kilometres west from Lake Vanda. Don Juan Pond is situated 3½ km southwest of North Fork.
Don Quixote Pond
Lake
Don Quixote Pond is a pond located 1.1 nautical miles northeast of Dais Col in North Fork, Wright Valley, Victoria Land. A whimsical name, after Don Quixote, applied in juxtaposition to Don Juan Pond.
Anderson Scarp
Cliff
Anderson Scarp is an upward slope and cliff 935 metres high, about 0.8 nautical miles west of Hall Bluff on the Dais, Wright Valley, in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Anderson Scarp is situated 3 km southeast of North Fork.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dais and Linnaeus Terrace.
Dais
Locality
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The Wright Valley is a large east–west trending valley, formerly occupied by a glacier but now ice free except for Wright Upper Glacier at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Linnaeus Terrace
Locality
Linnaeus Terrace is a rock terrace on the north side of Oliver Peak in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area No.138 because it is one of the richest known sites for the cryptoendolithic communities that colonise the Beacon Sandstone. Linnaeus Terrace is situated 8 km southwest of North Fork.
Nakai Snowfield
Locality
The Olympus Range is a primarily ice-free mountain range of Victoria Land, Antarctica, with peaks over 2,000 metres high, between Victoria Valley and McKelvey Valley on the north and Wright Valley on the south. Nakai Snowfield is situated 8 km northeast of North Fork.
North Fork
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 464 metres
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“North Fork” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “North Fork”
- German: “North Fork”
- Swedish: “North Fork”
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