- McKay Valley
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McKay Valley (79°53′S 156°40′E / 79.883°S 156.667°E) is the central valley of three largely ice-free valleys that trend east from Midnight Plateau in the Darwin Mountains. Named after Christopher P. McKay, physicist, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, who carried out investigations in McMurdo Dry Valleys (micrometeorology, thickness of ice in frozen lakes, stability of ground ice) in 15 austral summers beginning c.1980.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "McKay Valley" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
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