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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United States Gazetteer Id 136272

Feature type: Terrace (2h)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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Narrative

A relatively level ice-free area c. 1 mi sq between LaBelle Valley and Berkey Valley in Cruzen Range, Victoria Land. The terrace rises to 1250 m, about 750 m above Barwick Valley close southward. Named by US-ACAN (2005) after P. Buford Price, Physics Department, University of California at Berkeley, a USAP principal investigator for cosmic-ray studies near McMurdo Station, 1989, and neutrino astrophysics research at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, 1991.

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Location

Latitude:
77° 19' 40.0" S
-77.32778°
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Longitude:
161° 18' 00.0" E
161.30000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-2005

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