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The glacial history of the ice-free area, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Parker E. Calkin  and
Colin Bull
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The Victoria Valley system, Wright Valley and Taylor Valley, often referred to colloquially as the dry-valley area, together cover about 4 000 km2 in the Transantarctic Mountains west of McMurdo Sound (Fig 1) and constitute the core of the largest ice-free area in Antarctica. It is a cold desert area, with high winds, low temperatures, low precipitation, and a strong positive radiation balance (Bull, 1966).

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Polar Record , Volume 17 , Issue 107 , May 1974 , pp. 129 - 137
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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