Peterson Terrace
| Peterson Terrace | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Cruzen Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 20 ′ S , 161 ° 12 ′ E | |
| surface | 2.5 km² | |
The Peterson Terrace (English for Peterson Terrace ) is a 2.5 km 2 large and ice-free plateau with a slight gradient in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It is located at an altitude of 1250 m in the Cruzen Range between the Gaisser Valley and the LaBelle Valley and immediately south of the Barwick Valley 750 m below and Lake Vashka .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2005 after the American physicist Jeffrey B. Peterson of Carnegie Mellon University , who between 1988 and 2005 was involved in 14 field research campaigns on astrophysical investigations at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Peterson Terrace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peterson Terrace on geographic.org