Name StatusOfficial ValidatedFeatureRiverNZ Gazette Reference2012 (53) p.1477DatumRSRGD2000GeoTag[1] PositionDescriptionFlows from Pyramid Trough into Walcott Bay through Trough, Walcott, Howchin and Alph Lakes. Flows under the moraine into Koettlitz Glacier. Named by Griffith Taylor of the BrAE, 1911-13 (Capt. Robert Scott) from a passage in Coleridge's poem: "Where Alph the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea."