The Defile
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The Defile is a narrow ice-free passageway between the terminus of Suess Glacier
Suess Glacier
Suess Glacier is a glacier between Canada Glacier and Lacroix Glacier, flowing south into Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was charted and named by the British Antarctic Expedition under Scott, 1910–13, for Professor Eduard Suess, noted Austrian geologist and paleontologist....

 and the talus-covered slope of Nussbaum Riegel
Nussbaum Riegel
Nussbaum Riegel is a riegel or rock-bar across Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, extending from the vicinity of Sollas Glacier toward Lake Chad. Charted and named by the British Antarctic Expedition under Scott, 1910-13....

 in Taylor Valley
Taylor Valley
Taylor Valley is the southern one of the three large Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains, Victoria Land, located west of McMurdo Sound at approximately . The valley extends from Taylor Glacier in the west to McMurdo Sound at Explorers Cove at the northwest head of New Harbour in the east...

, 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...

. Charted and descriptively named by the British Antarctic Expedition under Scott
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...

, 1910-13.
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