Kite Stream is a meltwater stream in the Victoria Valley

Victoria Valley

Victoria Valley is one of the larger McMurdo Dry Valleys. Lake Vida is the largest lake of the valley. The Victoria River drains the Upper Victoria Glacier, with Upper Victoria Lake just below it and northwest of Lake Vida, into Vida Lake on its western side. Lake Thomas is east of Lake Vida....

, Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

, that flows west from Victoria Lower Glacier

Victoria Lower Glacier

Victoria Lower Glacier is a glacier occupying the lower eastern end of Victoria Valley where it appears to merge with Wilson Piedmont Glacier. It was named by the Victoria University of the Wellington Antarctic Expedition for their Alma Mater, which sponsored the expedition....

 into Lake Vida

Lake Vida

Lake Vida is a hypersaline lake in Victoria Valley, the northernmost of the large McMurdo Dry Valleys, on the continent of Antarctica. It is isolated under year-round ice cover, and is considerably more saline than seawater...

. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) after James Steven Kite, University of Maine, geological field assistant with the Victoria Valley party, 1977-78. Kite was conducting research in the glacial geology of Victoria Valley, when, not as a part of his research, he found a 43 pounds (19.5 kg) iron meteorite

Meteorite

A meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives impact with the Earth's surface. Meteorites can be big or small. Most meteorites derive from small astronomical objects called meteoroids, but they are also sometimes produced by impacts of asteroids...

in a moraine 0.3 nautical mile (0.5556 km) inland from Victoria Lower Glacier.