McMurdo is a surname, as well as a name given to many places in Antarctica, including: Places in Antarctica McMurdo Station, a station at the southern tip of Ross Island in Antarctica South Pole Traverse, also known as the McMurdo – South Pole highway McMurdo Sound, a sound lying at the junction of the Ross Sea McMurdo Ice Shelf, a portion of the Ross Ice Shelf McMurdo Dry Valleys, a row of valleys in Victoria Land Surname Alex McMurdo, Scottish footballer Archibald McMurdo (1812–1894), British naval officer, has many places in Antarctica named after him Margaret McMurdo (born 1954), Australian judge Wendy McMurdo (born 1962), British artist Other uses McMurdo (crater), a crater in the Mare Australe quadrangle of Mars