Pearse Valley
| Pearse Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Type | Antarctic dry valley | |
| length | 5 km | |
The Pearse Valley is a 5 km long and ice-free valley in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies immediately west of the Catspaw Glacier on the south side of the Asgard Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 1964 after the American biologist John Stuart Pearse (* 1936), who worked at the McMurdo station from 1961 to 1962 .
Web links
- Pearse Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pearse Valley on geographic.org (English)