Adventure Subglacial Trench is a subglacial
valley
A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains and typically containing a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over ...
in the interior of
Wilkes Land
Wilkes Land is a large district of land in eastern Antarctica, formally claimed by Australia as part of the Australian Antarctic Territory, though this claim has been held in abeyance for the period of the operation of the Antarctic Treaty, to wh ...
, running north–south and joined by
Vincennes Subglacial Basin to
Aurora Subglacial Basin
Aurora Subglacial Basin is a large subglacial basin of Wilkes Land to the west of Dome Charlie and trending northwest toward the coast in the vicinity of Shackleton Ice Shelf. The basin was delineated by the SPRI- NSF- TUD airborne radio echo s ...
to the west. The feature was delineated by the
SPRI-
NSF
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TUD airborne radio echo sounding program, 1967–79, and named after
HMS ''Adventure'' (Commander
Tobias Furneaux
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,
Royal Navy
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), one of the two ships of the British expedition, 1772–75 (Captain
James Cook
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, Royal Navy).
Valleys of Antarctica
Landforms of Wilkes Land
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