Priscu Stream
Coordinates: 77 ° 39 ′ S , 162 ° 45 ′ E
The Priscu Stream is a 3 km long meltwater river in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It flows from the southwest end of Lacroix Glacier to the northeast end of Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1996 after the environmental researcher John Priscu (* 1952) from Montana State University , chief scientist of numerous studies of the water system in the region around McMurdo Sound and leader of the first expedition as part of the Winfly project into the Antarctic dry valleys in 1991.
See also
Web links
- Priscu Stream in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Priscu Stream on geographic.org (English)