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Marshall Valley ( 78°4′S 164°12′E  /  78.067°S 164.200°E  / -78.067; 164.200  ( Marshall Valley ) ) is a small valley in Antarctica, ice free except for Rivard Glacier at its western head. It is 12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi) long, and 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) wide, and lies between Garwood Valley and Miers Valley on the coast of Victoria Land . It is one of the McMurdo Dry Valleys . The valley is open to the Ross Sea to the east.

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19-679: Marshall Valley was named by the New Zealand Blue Glacier Party (1956–1957) for Dr. Eric Marshall , surgeon and cartographer of the British Antarctic Expedition (BrAE; 1907–09), who accompanied Ernest Shackleton on his journey to within 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) of the South Pole . Download coordinates as: 78°03′S 164°05′E  /  78.050°S 164.083°E  / -78.050; 164.083 . A ridge to

38-599: The Isle of Wight . He died on 26 February 1963. Jameson Adams Sir Jameson Boyd Adams KCVO CBE DSO RD (6 March 1880 – 30 April 1962) was a British Antarctic explorer and Royal Naval Reserve officer. He participated in the Nimrod expedition , the first expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in an unsuccessful attempt to reach the South Pole . Born in Rippingale , Lincolnshire,

57-797: The Military Cross in January 1918. By the end of the First World War he had attained the rank of acting major. In autumn 1918, Marshall was posted to Archangel in northern Russia as a member of the British North Russian Expeditionary Force , serving as a senior medical officer at Archangel . For his services there he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire and awarded

76-712: The Nimrod Expedition . Despite the expedition's ultimate failure, he was one of the party of four who reached the Polar Plateau for the first time ever, thus showing the way to the Pole. On 9 January 1909 they attained a Furthest South of 88°23′S 162°00′E  /  88.383°S 162.000°E  / -88.383; 162.000 , just 97 miles (156 km) from the South Pole, when they were forced by impending starvation to turn back. On his return from

95-965: The Second World War . During the Second World War he was sent to Gibraltar in May 1942 with the rank of Captain RN, as Chief of the Contraband Control Service, he left Gibraltar in 1944 with the rank of Commander RN. He continued with King George's Jubilee Trust for youth until his retirement in 1948, when he was knighted in the Royal Victorian Order . He lived above Pratt's and became the honorary appeals secretary for King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers , where he worked right up to his death in 1962. In appropriate company, his use of somewhat crude invective

114-716: The United States Geological Survey . Eric Marshall Lieutenant Colonel Eric Marshall CBE MC (29 May 1879 – 26 February 1963) was a British Army doctor and Antarctic explorer with the Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in 1907–09, and was one of the party of four men (Marshall, Shackleton, Jameson Adams and Frank Wild ) who reached Furthest South at 88°23′S 162°00′E  /  88.383°S 162.000°E  / -88.383; 162.000 on 9 January 1909. Born in Hampstead , Surrey , on 29 May 1879, he

133-875: The Antarctic in 1909, he entered the Civil Service , where a year later he was appointed head of the North-Eastern Division of the Employment Exchanges. Recalled to the Navy on the outbreak of the First World War , he became Flag Lieutenant to Admiral Hood commanding the Dover Patrol. Then, after a period of special work at the Ministry of Munitions , he was posted to Flanders to command a battery of naval siege guns. A bad wound in

152-694: The Russian Order of St Stanislaus . Marshall married Enid in 1922. In the 1930s the family moved to Kenya, where he practised farming for a few years before returning to England. During the Second World War , Marshall rejoined the Royal Army Medical Corps and achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After the War ended, Marshall joined the Ministry of Pensions as a medical officer. When he retired he and his wife moved to Yarmouth in

171-460: The center of Denton Hills on the Scott Coast of Victoria Land. The ridge rises to 1,075 metres (3,527 ft) high and extends west-east between Marshall Valley and Miers Valley. Named Kahiwi Maihao Ridge by New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) in 1994, a Maori name meaning "finger ridge". [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of

190-836: The century' in one letter held at the Royal Geographical Society dated 30 August 1956. Marshall joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in April 1915. He was mentioned in despatches by Sir Douglas Haig , Commander in Chief of the British Armies in France and Flanders in April 1916 for service at Ypres and for service at the Somme in May 1917. He was awarded

209-664: The east of Blue Glacier on Scott Coast, Victoria Land, running east–west and rising to about 1,175 metres (3,855 ft) high between Garwood Valley and Marshall Valley. The feature was almost surely observed in 1903 by the Koettlitz Glacier party led by Lieutenant A. B. Armitage of the British National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE), but it was first clearly mapped by Captain Robert F. Scott's second expedition, BrAE, 1910–1913. The ridge

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228-721: The head necessitated his return in 1917, and he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Croix de Guerre for his services. After the war, he returned to the Ministry of Labour as Controller for the North-Eastern Division, and such spare time as he had was largely devoted to helping boys' clubs. In 1928 was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire . He left the service in 1935 to become Secretary of King George's Jubilee Trust for youth. He remained in this post, apart from further distinguished service in

247-712: The principal photographer. According to Leif Mills , who has written about the two men in Polar Friction: the relationship between Marshall and Shackleton, 2012 , Marshall was "an indispensable member of Shackleton's expedition; yet on the voyage down from New Zealand to Antarctica, during the long Antarctic winter at their base at Cape Royds and on the actual southern journey, Marshall constantly criticised Shackleton in his diary, sometimes in almost vitriolic language, and seemed to have nothing but contempt for him." Marshall maintained his criticism of Shackleton throughout his life, referring to him as 'the biggest mountebank of

266-602: The son of a doctor and the grandson of a captain in the Indian Navy, he ran away from school to enter the merchant navy at the age of 13. In 1902 he became a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve , and on reaching the rank of Lieutenant he was one of the last to gain a Master Mariner's certificate under sail. But he gave up a promising career to join Ernest Shackleton as the second-in-command of

285-850: Was applied by the NZ-APC and United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in consultation, and derives from its location in Marshall Valley. 78°04′08″S 164°25′26″E  /  78.068953°S 164.423965°E  / -78.068953; 164.423965 A point at the foot of Marshall Valley, Denton Hills, on the Scott Coast of Victoria Land. Named by US-ACAN (1994) after Douglas P. DeMaster, biologist, University of Minnesota; who conducted seal studies in 1976 and 1977 (McMurdo Sound), 1977 and 1978 (South Shetland Island), 1978 and 1979 (Palmer Archipelago). 78°05′00″S 164°00′00″E  /  78.0833333°S 164°E  / -78.0833333; 164 An ice-free ridge near

304-482: Was educated at Monkton Combe School , Bath and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge , before qualifying as a surgeon from St Bartholomew's Hospital . Marshall met Shackleton in 1906 at a house party in London. Shackleton told him about the proposed expedition to the South Pole and suggested Marshall go on a training course on surveying and then he could become the expedition's surgeon , surveyor and cartographer as well as

323-608: Was named by Péwé for Norman Rivard who was his assistant on this expedition. 78°04′S 164°18′E  /  78.067°S 164.300°E  / -78.067; 164.300 . A meltwater stream about 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) long that flows through the Marshall Valley from the Rivard Glacier to the Koettlitz Glacier . The stream was observed by Troy L. Péwé, glacial geologist with United States Navy Operation Deep Freeze, 1957–1958. The name

342-557: Was named in association with Marshall Valley by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1982. 78°04′S 163°55′E  /  78.067°S 163.917°E  / -78.067; 163.917 . A glacier about 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) long at the head of Marshall Valley. The glacier was observed and mapped by Troy L. Péwé, glacial geologist with United States Navy Operation Deep Freeze , 1957–1958. It

361-628: Was often unrestrained, and he was never deterred by convention from saying what he thought. He preferred to be known by allcomers, from porters to the royal family, simply as "The Mate". In November 2008, 100 years after the Nimrod Expedition began, one of "The Mate's" great-grandsons, Henry Adams, set off from the Shackleton Hut with two other members of the Shackleton Centenary Expedition to complete

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