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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jones Terrace and Prospect Mesa.
Jones Terrace
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. 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. It lies below Bull Pass on the north side of Wright Valley. The name designates that it is part of the regional geological Prospect Formation. Prospect Mesa is situated 9 km west of Onyx River.
Onyx River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
Discover Onyx River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Onyx River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Onyx”
- Azerbaijani: “Oniks çayı”
- Belarusian: “Онікс”
- Catalan: “riu Onyx”
- Catalan: “Riu Onyx”
- Cebuano: “Onyx River”
- Chinese: “奧尼克斯河”
- Czech: “Onyx”
- Dutch: “Onyx River”
- Dutch: “Onyx”
- Esperanto: “Oniksrivero”
- 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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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Onyx River”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.