South 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 |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Don Juan Pond and Anderson Scarp.
Don Juan Pond
Lake
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
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.
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 northeast of South Fork.
Butler Summit
Peak
Butler Summit is a peak rising to about 1,000 metres in the extreme western part of the Dais in Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Rhett Butler of Incorporated Research Institutions for… Butler Summit is situated 4 km northwest of South Fork.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dais and Linnaeus Terrace.
Dais
Locality
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
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 5 km southwest of South Fork.
Plane Table Glacier
Locality
Plane Table Glacier is a short, tapering glacier on the north side of Plane Table that extends part way down the south wall of Wright Valley, Victoria Land. Plane Table Glacier is situated 6 km southeast of South Fork.
South Fork
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 875 metres
- Description: valley in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“South Fork” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “South Fork”
- German: “South Fork”
- Swedish: “South Fork, Antarktis”
- Swedish: “South Fork”
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