Wright Valley is a large east west trending valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica, the central of the three McMurdo Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains west of McMurdo Sound. Once filled by glacial ice, it is now largely ice free apart from the Wright Upper Glacier at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, an unusual deglaciated state given its closeness to the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, and it hosts the Onyx River, Antarctica's longest, along with several lakes and tributary glaciers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Erosion via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
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1. Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty: Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty
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It designates Antarctica as a “natural reserve, devoted to peace and science” (Art. 2).
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The Wright Valley is a large east-west trending valley, formerly occupied by a glacier but now ice free except for Wright Upper Glacier at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Wikidata: Wright Valley
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