Viking 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...

 on the east side Mars Glacier

Mars Glacier

Mars Glacier is a glacier in the southeast corner of Alexander Island, 6 nautical miles long and 2 nautical miles wide, flowing south into the ice shelf of George Vl Sound between Two Step Cliffs and Phobos Ridge. First seen from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935, and roughly...

 containing a braided stream which feeds into Secret Lake

Secret Lake

Secret Lake is a meltwater lake 2 nautical miles west of Ares Cliff, in eastern Alexander Island. The lake is situated in a NW-facing cirque and is fed from an area of stagnant ice. It lies 100 m above the east edge of Mars Glacier and is visible only from the cirque or from the air. Mapped by...

, Alexander Island

Alexander Island

Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

. This area was the prime research site of the 1992-93 Mars Glacier field party led by D. D. Wynn-Williams. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1993 in association with Mars Glacier. The name "Viking" stems from the Viking Lander project of NASA which first searched for life on Mars in 1976.