LaBelle Valley

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LaBelle Valley
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Cruzen Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Geographical location 77 ° 19 '40 "  S , 161 ° 15' 40"  O Coordinates: 77 ° 19 '40 "  S , 161 ° 15' 40"  O
LaBelle Valley (Antarctica)
LaBelle Valley
length 1.5 km

The LaBelle Valley is a 1.5 km long valley in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Cruzen Range , it is between Peterson Terrace and Price Terrace . To the south it opens to the Barwick Valley .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2005 after the American astrophysicist Frank T. Berkey of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College , who was the senior observer for the United States Antarctic Program from 1991 to 2004 for the study of the lower, middle ones and high-frequency aurora waves at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and other observation stations.

Web links