Alph River
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This article is about an actual geographical river. For other uses of the term, see Alph.
Alph River () is a river of Antarctica which was named by Griffith Taylor of the Nimrod Expedition of 1911-13. The name is from the opening passage in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, Kubla Khan, published in 1816. The nearby Xanadu Hills are named from the same poem.
This article incorporates text from Alph River, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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