Alph River

Alph River

Alph River (coord|78|12|S|163|45|E|) is a river of Antarctica which was named by Griffith Taylor of the Terra Nova Expedition of 1911-13. The name is from the opening passage in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, "Kubla Khan", published in 1816. The nearby Xanadu Hills are named from the same poem.

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