McKay Creek
McKay Creek (77°39′S 162°45′E / 77.650°S 162.750°E) is a meltwater stream, 250 metres (270 yd) long, heading on Suess Glacier west-southwest of the west end of Lake Chad at about 100 metres (330 ft) elevation and flowing east-northeast into Lake Chad in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1996 after Christopher P. McKay, a NASA planetary scientist, who conducted limnological research on Lake Hoare from 1982 and pioneered the use of year-round environmental data collection in dry valley ecosystems.[1]
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- ^ "McKay Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-09-06.
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