Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Murphy Valley (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Murphy Valley (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Valley (2g)
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:
An upland valley on the NE side of Mount Booth in E Olympus Range, McMurdo Dry Valleys. The valley opens N to Victoria Valley. Named by US-ACAN (2004) after Kenneth W. Murphy, Jr., USGS cartographic technician, a member of USGS satellite surveying teams at the South Pole Station during two winters, 1981 and 1987.
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