Malin Valley
Victoria Valley is an extensive ice-free valley, formerly occupied by a large glacier, extending from Victoria Upper Glacier to Victoria Lower Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is one of the larger McMurdo Dry Valleys.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cerberus, Mount and Booth, Mount.
Cerberus, 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.
Booth, Mount
Peak
Mount Booth is a peak, 1,575 metres high, surmounting the junction of mountain ridges at the southwest end of Murphy Valley in the Olympus Range, McMurdo Dry Valleys.
Bull Pass
Mountain saddle
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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. Bull Pass is situated 3½ km southwest of Malin Valley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jones Terrace and Prospect Mesa.
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 9 km southeast of Malin Valley.
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. Prospect Mesa is situated 10 km south of Malin Valley.
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 10 km southwest of Malin Valley.
Malin Valley
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 1,091 metres
- Description: valley in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
Discover Malin Valley from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Malin Valley” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Malin Valley”
- German: “Malin Valley”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Malin Valley”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malin Valley”
- Norwegian: “Malin Valley”
- Swedish: “Malin Valley”
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Highlights include Cerberus Valley and Orestes Glacier.
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