Wall Valley
McKelvey Valley is a valley between the western part of the Olympus Range and the Insel Range, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Apollo Peak and Minotaur Pass.
Apollo Peak
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.
Minotaur Pass
Mountain saddle
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.
Dipboye Cirque
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prentice Plateau and Labyrinth.
Prentice Plateau
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. Prentice Plateau is situated 6 km west of Wall Valley.
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. Labyrinth is situated 7 km south of Wall Valley.
Wall Valley
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 1,651 metres
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wall Valley” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wall Valley”
- German: “Wall Valley”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wall Valley”
- Swedish: “Wall Valley”
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