Garwood Valley () is a valley opening on the coast of
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78th parallel south, 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Ant ...
, Antarctica, just south of
Cape Chocolate.
It is one of the
McMurdo Dry Valleys.
It is largely ice-free, but is occupied near its head by Garwood Glacier.
It was named by
Thomas Griffith Taylor of the
British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13 (BrAE), in association with Garwood Glacier.
Features
Mount Alexandra
.
A mountain rising to at the south side of the head of Garwood Glacier.
Named by New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) after Jane Alexandra (1829-92), an early botanist with an interest in lower plants.
Born in Calcutta, she came to New Zealand in 1862.
Mount Atholl
.
A peak rising to to the west of Mount Alexandra.
Named by NZGB in 1994 after Sarah Atholl (d. 1873), an early New Zealand botanist with an interest in lichens.
Garwood Glacier
.
A glacier occupying the northwest part of Garwood Valley.
First Mapped by the
British National Antarctic Expedition
The ''Discovery'' Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–1 ...
(BrNAE; 1901-04), but not named until 1911.
Named by Taylor of the BrAE (1910-13) for
Edmund Johnston Garwood, professor of geology and mineralogy at the
University of London
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.
Projection Peak at the southwest extremity of
Hobbs Ridge rises above the head of Garwood Glacier.
Lake Garwood
.
A lake at the lower end of Garwood Valley.
The lake receives meltwater from Garwood Glacier at the valley head.
Named by Griffith Taylor of the BrAE, 1910-13, in association with Garwood Glacier.
Burrows Glacier
.
A hanging glacier on the south wall of Garwood Valley and opposite the Garwood Glacier in the
Denton Hills.
The glacier provides the water and nutrients for the existence of Nostoc beds below.
Named by the
New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) (2002) after Emeritus Professor Colin Burrows, sometime teacher in the Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences, University of Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Valleys of Victoria Land
McMurdo Dry Valleys