Name details

Greenville Valley

Greenville Valley (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Greenville Valley  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113431

Feature type: Valley (2g)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A large dry valley running southwest to northeast for some 15km to the head of Northwind Glacier, 12km due west of Flagship Mountain. A lobe of the Northwind Glacier flows a short distance into the mouth of the valley. Near the head of the valley the south wall is breached on the east by the entrance to the Merrill Valley, separated by Voigt Ledge. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MC07

Named For

Discovered by the Northern Survey Party of the New Zealand Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1956-58, in December 1957, and named by them for the U.S. Naval Ship (USNS) Greenville Victory, a freighter in the main American convoy into McMurdo Sound in 1956-57.

Location

Latitude:
76° 44' 00.0" S
-76.73333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
160° 52' 00.0" E
160.86667°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
1020 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
LINZ AntTopo50 series
Source Identifier:
MC07 : Edition 1.00 Published 2012
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
LINZ
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
24-Jul-1959

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