McKelvey Valley [SEP] continent
McKelvey Valley
McKelvey Valley () is a valley between the western part of the Olympus Range and the Insel Range, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) (1958–59) for B.C. McKelvey, a geologist of the Victoria University of Wellington, who, with P.N. Webb, undertook the first geological exploration of this area (1957–58), and was again in Wright Valley with the VUWAE in 1958–59.
Virginia Valley
Virginia Valley () is an upland valley on the Antarctic continent. It lies east of Wall valley in the Olympus Range, located between the north part of Mount Electra on the west, and Mount Circe and Mount Dido on the east. The valley opens north to McKelvey Valley. The valley was named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2004) after Ross A. Virginia, a soils biologist in the Environmental Studies Program of Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) who spent 13 field