Pearse Valley

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title: "Pearse Valley" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["valleys-of-victoria-land", "mcmurdo-dry-valleys"] description: "Valley in Antarctica" topic_path: "general/valleys-of-victoria-land" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearse_Valley" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Valley in Antarctica ::

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Field	Value
name	Wright Valley
photo	File:Lake Joyce.jpg
photo_caption	Lake Joyce is ice covered all year around, and the icy surface is constantly reshaped by wind, freezing and thawing.
map	Antarctica
map_size	180
location	Antarctica
coordinates
elevation
watercourses	[
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| name = Wright Valley | embed = | other_name = | photo = File:Lake Joyce.jpg | photo_size = | photo_width = | photo_caption = Lake Joyce is ice covered all year around, and the icy surface is constantly reshaped by wind, freezing and thawing. | photo_alt = | map = Antarctica | map_size = 180 | map_alt = | map_caption = | location = Antarctica | coordinates = | coordinates_ref = | elevation = | elevation_m = | elevation_ft = | elevation_ref = | direction = | length = | width = | area = | depth = | type = | age = | boundaries = | topo = | towns = | traversed = | watercourses = [ | footnotes = Pearse Valley () is an ice-free valley 3 nmi long, lying immediately west of Catspaw Glacier, at the south side of the Asgard Range in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for John S. Pearse, biologist at McMurdo Station, 1961, and the season 1961–62.

Location

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/C77198s1_Ant.Map_Taylor_Glacier.jpg" caption="Asgard Range south of center of mapped region. Pearse Valley towards southeast."] ::

Pearse Valley is one of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. It is in the south of the Asgard Range, opening onto Lake Joyce on the north side of the Taylor Glacier. The Friis Hills are to the south. Round Mountain is to the northwest.

Features

Features in or around the valley include the Schlatter Glacier, Lake House, Lake Joyce and Catspaw Glacier.

Schlatter Glacier

Nylen Glacier

Fountain Glacier

Lake House

Lake Joyce

Main article: Lake Joyce

References

Sources

• {{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2024-01-30 |edition=2 |editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G. |publisher=United States Board on Geographic Names |year=1995}}
• {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18657 |name=Fountain Glacier}}
• {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=18645 |name=Nylen Glacier}}
• {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C77198s1_Ant.Map_Taylor_Glacier.jpg |accessdate=2024-02-11 |title=Taylor Glacier |publisher=USGS: United States Geological Survey |ref= }}

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