Miers Valley is a 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...

 in the McMurdo Dry Valleys

McMurdo Dry Valleys

The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of snow-free valleys in Antarctica located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound. The region is one of the world's most extreme deserts, and includes many interesting features including Lake Vida and the Onyx River, Antarctica's longest river.-Climate:The Dry...

 located just south of Marshall Valley

Marshall Valley

Marshall Valley is a small valley, which is ice free except for Rivard Glacier at its head, lying between the Garwood and Miers Valleys on the coast of Victoria Land. Named by the New Zealand Blue Glacier Party for Dr. Eric Marshall, surgeon and cartographer of the British Antarctic Expedition ,...

 and west of Koettlitz Glacier

Koettlitz Glacier

The Koettlitz Glacier is a large Antarctic glacier lying west of Mount Morning and Mount Discovery, flowing from the vicinity of Mount Cocks northeastward between Brown Peninsula and the mainland into the ice shelf of McMurdo Sound....

, 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...

. The valley is ice-free in the Austral summer except for Miers Glacier

Miers Glacier

Miers Glacier is a small glacier north of Terminus Mountain in Victoria Land, occupying the upper portion of Miers Valley. Mapped and named by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13....

 and Adams Glacier (Victoria Land)

Adams Glacier (Victoria Land)

Adams Glacier is a small glacier immediately south of Miers Glacier in Victoria Land. The heads of Adams and Miers glaciers, both located in the Miers Valley, are separated by a low ridge, and the east end of this ridge is almost completely surrounded by the snouts of the two glaciers, which...

 (named after Sir Jameson Boyd Adams ) in its upper (western) part, and Lake Miers

Lake Miers

Lake Miers is a small lake in Miers Valley, lying east of the snouts of Miers and Adams Glaciers, and filled by meltwater from these glaciers. A stream from the lake flows down the valley in the warmest weather to reach the coast of Victoria Land. Named after Miers Glacier in 1957 by the New...

 near its center. It was mapped and named by Scott's British Antarctic Expedition

Terra Nova Expedition

The Terra Nova Expedition , officially the British Antarctic Expedition 1910, was led by Robert Falcon Scott with the objective of being the first to reach the geographical South Pole. Scott and four companions attained the pole on 17 January 1912, to find that a Norwegian team led by Roald...

, 1910–13, possibly after Edward J. Miers

Edward J. Miers

Edward John Miers F.Z.S. F.L.S. was a British zoologist and curator of the crustacean collection at the Natural History Museum in London...

, who was a marine biologist from the British Museum who examined crustacea from the Erebus and Terror expeditions. A hut existed in the valley from 1984-1994.

Miers Stream is a named in association with Miers Valley.