Williams Pond
Williams Pond is a pond 0.4 miles north of the east end of Hoffman Ledge, within the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys. The basin is named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after M.W.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dais Col and Murray Pond.
Dais Col
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.
Murray Pond
Lake
Murray Pond is a pond 0.4 nautical miles east-southeast of Gupwell Pond in the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys. It is the W-most of the three aligned ponds lying south of the east part of Hoffman Ledge.
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…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Labyrinth and Linnaeus Terrace.
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.
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.
Williams Pond
- Type: Lake
- Description: pond in Antarctica
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.54132° or 77° 32′ 29″ southLongitude
160.98416° or 160° 59′ 3″ eastElevation
977 metres (3,205 feet)Named after
M.W. (Max) Williams of HamiltonOpen location code
2VJ2FX5M+FMOpenStreetMap ID
way 984549039OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lake
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In Other Languages
From German to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Williams Pond” goes by many names.
- German: “Williams Pond”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Williams Pond”
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