Wright Valley
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 Lake Bull.
Lake Bull
Lake
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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. Lake Bull is situated 3 km west of Wright Valley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prospect Mesa and Vanda Station.
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.
Vanda Station
Locality
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Vanda Station was an Antarctic research base in the western highlands of the Ross Dependency, specifically on the shore of Lake Vanda, at the mouth of Onyx River, in the Wright Valley. Vanda Station is situated 4 km west of Wright Valley.
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 6 km east of Wright Valley.
Wright Valley
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 362 metres
- Description: valley in the Transantarctic Mountains, located west of McMurdo Sound
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Wright Valley” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Vall Wright”
- Cebuano: “Wright Valley”
- Chinese: “莱特山谷”
- Chinese: “萊特山谷”
- Chinese: “賴特谷”
- Dutch: “Wright Valley”
- Esperanto: “Valo Wright”
- French: “vallée de Wright”
- French: “Vallée de Wright”
- German: “Wright Valley”
- Hebrew: “עמק רייט”
- Italian: “Valle di Wright”
- Japanese: “ライト谷”
- Latvian: “Raita ieleja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wright Valley”
- Persian: “دره رایت”
- Romanian: “Valea Wright”
- Romanian: “Wright Valley”
- Slovenian: “Wright Valley”
- Spanish: “Valle de Wright”
- Swedish: “Wright Valley”
- Swedish: “Wrightdalen”
- Turkish: “Wright Vadisi”
- Ukrainian: “Долина Райта”
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