Dais
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.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Don Juan Pond and Anderson Scarp.
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.
Anderson Scarp
Cliff
Anderson Scarp is an upward slope and cliff 935 metres high, about 0.8 nautical miles west of Hall Bluff on the Dais, Wright Valley, in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica.
Hall Bluff
Cliff
Hall Bluff is a prominent rock bluff, 750 metres high, that forms the east end of Dais and marks the valley entrances to North Fork and South Fork in Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Hall Bluff is situated 3 km east of Dais.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plane Table Glacier and Linnaeus Terrace.
Plane Table Glacier
Locality
Plane Table Glacier is a short, tapering glacier on the north side of Plane Table that extends part way down the south wall of Wright Valley, Victoria Land. Plane Table Glacier is situated 7 km southeast of 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. Linnaeus Terrace is situated 7 km southwest of Dais.
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 9 km northeast of Dais.
Dais
- Type: Locality
- Description: plateau in Antarctica
- Category: plateau
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.55° or 77° 33′ southLongitude
161.26667° or 161° 16′ eastOpen location code
2VJ3F728+2MOpenStreetMap ID
node 11054060480OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q1157651
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Dais” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dais”
- Dutch: “Dais”
- German: “Dais”
- Swedish: “Dais”
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