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Torrent Valley (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Torrent Valley (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Valley
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Valley running from an ice-field below precipitous cliffs ESE of Massey Heights to Shrove Bay, James Ross Island. Named in association with a river which flows under the two separate ice fields and emerges approx. 0.5km downstream from an ice cave on to a deltaic plain (APC, 1993).
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