McKay Creek

McKay Creek (-77.65°N, 162.75°W) is a meltwater stream, 250 m long, heading on Suess Glacier west-southwest of the west end of Lake Chad at about 100 m elevation and flowing east-northeast into Lake Chad in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1996 after Christopher P. McKay, a NASA planetary scientist, who conducted limnological research on Lake Hoare from 1982 and pioneered the use of year-round environmental data collection in dry valley ecosystems.