Dais Col
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 Matsumoto Pond and Butler Summit.
Matsumoto Pond
Lake
Matsumoto Pond is a pond south of Dais Col and 1.4 nautical miles west of Don Juan Pond in South Fork, Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Japanese chemist Genki I.
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…
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Linnaeus Terrace and Dais.
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.
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.
Labyrinth
Locality
Photo: Dturme, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Labyrinth is an extensive flat upland area which has been deeply eroded, at the west end of Wright Valley, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was so named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition because the eroded dolerite of which it is formed gives an appearance of a labyrinth.
Dais Col
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 844 metres
- Description: col in Antarctica
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.55352° or 77° 33′ 13″ southLongitude
161.05718° or 161° 3′ 26″ eastElevation
844 metres (2,769 feet)Open location code
2VJ3C3W4+HVOpenStreetMap ID
node 1912502502OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Dais Col” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dais Col”
- German: “Dais Col”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dais Col”
- Swedish: “Dais Col”
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