Priscu Valley
| Priscu Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Priscu Valley is a non-iced high valley in East Antarctic Victoria Land and is one of the Antarctic dry valleys . In the Olympus Range , it is on the east side of the Prentice Plateau . To the north it opens to the head of the McKelvey Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the valley in 2004 after the US geoscientist John Priscu (* 1952) from Montana State University , who was involved in investigations in the Antarctic dry valleys from 1984 to 2002 as part of the United States Antarctic Program .
Web links
- Priscu Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Priscu Valley on geographic.org (English)