Towle Valley () is the deep valley formerly occupied by the head of Towle Glacier, lying immediately west of Towle Glacier in the Convoy Range 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.

Exploration and naming

Towle Valley was mapped in 1957 by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the

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(1956–58). It was named by them for the USNS ''Private John R. Towle'', an American freighter which carried a large part of the

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stores south in December 1956.

Features

The glacier runs east of northeast to

Fry Glacier Fry Glacier () is a glacier draining the slopes at the northeast corner of the Convoy Range and flowing along the south end of the Kirkwood Range into Tripp Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was first charted by the British Antarctic Expeditio ...

between

Elkhorn Ridge Greenville Valley () is the large mainly ice-free valley lying south of Elkhorn Ridge in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. A lobe of the Northwind Glacier flows a short distance west into the mouth of the valley. Near the head of the ...

to the south and Eastwind Ridge to the north. The valley is at its former head. Features include

Hurricane Heights

. The irregular, mainly ice-free heights which rise to about at the south side of the head of Towle Valley. The name was applied by a 1989-90 NZARP field party to describe the windy aspect of this upland area.

Mount Shadbolt

. The highest summit, high, in the north part of the Convoy Range, standing at the north side of the head of Towle Valley. Named by the 1976-77 Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions (VUWAE), led by Christopher J. Burgess, after New Zealand author

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