Cartwright Valley
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hercules, Mount and Aeolus, Mount.
Hercules, Mount
Peak
Mount Hercules is a large, flat-topped, elevated feature between Mount Aeolus and Mount Jason in the Olympus Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition for Hercules, a figure in Greek mythology.
Aeolus, Mount
Peak
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.
Marsh Cirque
Valley
Mount Hercules is a large, flat-topped, elevated feature between Mount Aeolus and Mount Jason in the Olympus Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition for Hercules, a figure in Greek mythology.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nakai Snowfield and Dais.
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 4½ km east of Cartwright Valley.
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. Dais is situated 8 km south of Cartwright Valley.
Vanda Station
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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 8 km southeast of Cartwright Valley.
Cartwright Valley
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 1,618 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—“Cartwright Valley” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cartwright Valley”
- German: “Cartwright Valley”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cartwright Valley”
- Swedish: “Cartwright Valley”
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