Onyx River
The Onyx River is an Antarctic meltwater stream that flows westward through the Wright Valley from Wright Lower Glacier and Lake Brownworth at the foot of the glacier to Lake Vanda, during the few months of the Antarctic summer.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Stream
- Description: river in McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, Antarctica
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jones Terrace and Prospect Mesa.
Jones Terrace
Locality
The Olympus Range is a primarily ice-free mountain… Jones Terrace is situated 5 km west of Onyx River.
Prospect Mesa
Locality
Prospect Mesa is a low mesa in Victoria Land, in eastern Antarctica. Prospect Mesa is situated 9 km west of Onyx River.
Onyx River
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.5° or 77° 30′ south
Longitude
162.28333° or 162° 17′ east
Open location code
2VJ4G72M+28
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Onyx River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر أونكس”
- Asturian: “Ríu Onyx”
- Azerbaijani: “Oniks çayı”
- Belarusian: “Онікс”
- Catalan: “Riu Onyx”
- Cebuano: “Onyx River”
- Chinese: “奧尼克斯河”
- Czech: “Onyx”
- Dutch: “Onyx River”
- Dutch: “Onyx”
- Esperanto: “Oniksrivero”
- Esperanto: “Onyx”
- Finnish: “Onyx”
- French: “Onyx”
- Georgian: “ონიქსი”
- German: “Onyx River”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Όνυξ”
- Hebrew: “אוניקס”
- Italian: “Onyx”
- Japanese: “オニックス川”
- Korean: “오닉스강”
- Latvian: “Oniksa”
- Macedonian: “Оникс (река)”
- Macedonian: “Оникс”
- Malayalam: “ഒനിക്സ് നദി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Onyx”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Onyx River”
- Norwegian: “Onyx”
- Persian: “رود اونیکس”
- Polish: “Onyx”
- Portuguese: “Rio Onyx”
- Romanian: “Râul Onyx”
- Russian: “Оникс”
- Serbian: “Оникс”
- Slovenian: “Onyx”
- Spanish: “Río Onyx”
- Swedish: “Onyx River”
- Swedish: “Onyxfloden”
- Turkish: “Onyx Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Онікс”
- Venetian: “Fiume Onyx”
- Welsh: “Afon Onyx”
- Western Frisian: “Onyks”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Meserve Glacier and Hart Glacier.
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