Wall Valley


Wall Valley is an upland valley next east of Priscu Valley in Olympus Range; Minotaur Pass is at the head between Apollo Peak and Mount Electra. The valley opens north to McKelvey Valley. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Diana Wall, Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; United States Antarctic Program soils biologist in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, 13 field seasons, 1989–2002, most of them as a principal investigator in the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-term Ecological Research program.