Lyons Creek
Lyons Creek is a meltwater stream, 1,500 metres long, flowing northeast along the south side of Taylor Glacier into the west end of Lake Bonney in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica.Places of Interest
Highlights include Blood Falls and Taylor Glacier.
Blood Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Blood Falls is an outflow of an iron oxide–tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica.
Taylor Glacier
Glacier
Photo: Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Taylor Glacier is a glacier in Antarctica about 35 nautical miles long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land into the western end of Taylor Valley, north of the Kukri Hills.
Bonney Riegel
Taylor Valley is an ice-free valley about 18 nautical miles long, once occupied by the receding Taylor Glacier. It lies north of the Kukri Hills between the Taylor Glacier and New Harbour in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Bonney Riegel is situated 2½ km northeast of Lyons Creek.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Claridge Terrace and Campbell Terrace.
Claridge Terrace
Locality
Claridge Terrace is a relatively horizontal area, 0.75 mile square with a median elevation of 1050 meters, between Mount J. J. Thomson and the northern wall of Taylor Valley, Victoria Land. Claridge Terrace is situated 3½ km north of Lyons Creek.
Campbell Terrace
Locality
Roa Ridge is a bow-shaped ridge, 5 mi long in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. For much of its extent, it separates Matterhorn Glacier and Lacroix Glacier. Named by New Zealand Geographic Board in 1998. Roa is a Māori word meaning “long” ridge. Campbell Terrace is situated 8 km northeast of Lyons Creek.
Lyons Creek
- Type: Stream
- Description: meltwater stream in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Lyons Creek” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lyons Creek”
- German: “Lyons Creek”
- Malayalam: “ലിയോൺ ക്രീക്ക്”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lyons Creek i Antarktis”
- Swedish: “Lyons Creek”
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