Marshall Valley is a small valley

Valley

In geology, a valley or dale is a depression with predominant extent in one direction. A very deep river valley may be called a canyon or gorge.The terms U-shaped and V-shaped are descriptive terms of geography to characterize the form of valleys...

, which is ice free except for Rivard Glacier

Rivard Glacier

Rivard Glacier is a glacier about long at the head of Marshall Valley in Victoria Land. The glacier was observed and mapped by Troy L. Pewe, glacial geologist with U.S. Navy Operation Deepfreeze, 1957-58. Named by Pewe for Norman Rivard who was his assistant on this expedition....

 at its head, lying between the Garwood

Garwood Valley

Garwood Valley is a valley opening on the coast of Victoria Land just south of Cape Chocolate. It is largely ice-free, but is occupied near its head by the Garwood Glacier. Named by Taylor of the British Antarctic Expedition in association with Garwood Glacier....

 and Miers Valley

Miers Valley

Miers Valley is a valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys located just south of Marshall Valley and west of Koettlitz Glacier, on the coast of Victoria Land. The valley is ice-free in the Austral summer except for Miers Glacier and Adams Glacier in its upper part, and Lake Miers near its center...

s on the coast of 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...

. Named by the New Zealand Blue Glacier Party (1956–57) for Dr. Eric Marshall

Eric Marshall

Eric Marshall was an Antarctica explorer with the Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in 1907-09, and was one of the party of four who reached Furthest South at on 9 January 1909...

, surgeon and cartographer of the British Antarctic Expedition

Nimrod Expedition

The British Antarctic Expedition 1907–09, otherwise known as the Nimrod Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton. Its main target, among a range of geographical and scientific objectives, was to be first to the South Pole...

 (1907–09), who accompanied Shackleton on his journey to within 97 nautical miles (179.6 km) of the South Pole

South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole...

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