Gaisser Valley

Gaisser Valley
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location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Cruzen Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Geographical location	77 ° 19 '30 " S , 161 ° 7' 20" O Coordinates: 77 ° 19 '30 " S , 161 ° 7' 20" O
length	2.5 km

The Gaisser Valley is a 2.5 km long and mostly ice-free valley in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Cruzen Range it lies south of Vashka Crag , is bounded to the east by Peterson Terrace and ends as a slope valley 800 m northwest of Lake Vashka .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2005 after the American physicist Thomas K. Gaisser of the Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware , who from 1991 to 2005 was the chief observer for the United States Antarctic Program to study cosmic rays on the Amundsen -Scott South Pole Station .

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