Price Terrace
| Price 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 ° 18 ′ E | |
| surface | 1.5 km² | |
The Price Terrace ( English for Price Terrace ) is a 1.5 km 2 , ice-free plateau in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located at an altitude of 1250 m in the Cruzen Range between the LaBelle Valley and the Berkey Valley and immediately south of the Barwick Valley 750 m below .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2005 after the US physicist P. Buford Price of the University of California, Berkeley , who was the chief observer of the United States Antarctic Program in 1989, investigations into cosmic rays at the McMurdo station and in 1991 astrophysical neutrino investigations performed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
Web links
- Price Terrace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Price Terrace on geographic.org