Name details

Price Terrace

Price Terrace (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Price Terrace  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 135703

Feature type: Terrace (2h)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A relatively level ice-free area c. 1.5km² between LaBelle Valley and Berkey Valley, Cruzen Range, Victoria Land. The terrace rises to 1250 m, about 750m above Barwick Valley close at south. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ME08

Named For

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2005) after P. Buford Price, Physics Department, University of California at Berkeley, a United States Antarctic Program (USAP) principal investigator for cosmic-ray studies near McMurdo Station, 1989, and neutrino astrophysics research at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, 1991.

Location

Latitude:
77° 19' 40.0" S
-77.32778°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
161° 18' 00.0" E
161.30000°
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Altitude:
1243 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2019
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 17_35 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
20-Oct-2005

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