Pearse Valley () is an ice-free valley long, lying immediately west of Catspaw Glacier, at the south side of the Asgard Range in

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78th parallel south, 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Ant ...

, Antarctica. It was named by the United States

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(US-ACAN) for John S. Pearse, biologist at

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, 1961, and the season 1961–62.

Location

Pearse Valley is one of the

McMurdo Dry Valleys The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of largely Antarctic oasis, snow-free valleys in Antarctica, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound. The Dry Valleys experience extremely low humidity and surrounding mountains prevent the flow of ...

. It is in the south of the Asgard Range, opening onto Lake Joyce on the north side of the

Taylor Glacier The Taylor Glacier () is a glacier in Antarctica about long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land into the western end of Taylor Valley, north of the Kukri Hills. It flows to the south of the Asgard Range. The middle part of the glacier is ...

. 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

. Glacier descending from the Asgard Range toward Lake House in Pearse Valley. Named by the

(US-ACAN) for Roberto P. Schlatter, Chilean biologist who worked in the United States ArmyRP birdbanding program relative to the Adelie penguin and the south polar skua, at Cape Crazier in the 1969-70 and 1970-71 seasons.

Nylen Glacier

. A narrow glacier between Schlatter Glacier and Fountain Glacier. It flows south into Pearse Valley. Named by the US-ACAN (2004) after Thomas H. Nylen, United States Antarctic Project (USAP) geologist from the Department of Geology at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon who studied glaciers in the Taylor Valley area, 1999-2003.

Fountain Glacier

. A glacier between Nylen Glacier and Catspaw Glacier. It flows south into Pearse Valley. Named by US-ACAN (2004) after Andrew G. Fountain, Department of Geology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon; USAP investigator in glacier mass balance studies of McMurdo Dry Valleys, 1993-2003.

Lake House

. A lake in the extreme west end of Pearse Valley, north of Friis Hills in Victoria Land. Named by the eighth

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(VUWAE), 1963-64, for D.A. House, chemist and member of the VUWAE party that explored lakes in the Taylor, Wright, and Victoria Valleys.

Lake Joyce

. A lake which lies along the northern side of Taylor Glacier in Pearse Valley. It is long, deep and is covered by of very clear ice. The lake was studied by the New Zealand VUWAE (1963-64) which named it after Ernest Joyce, a member of earlier British expeditions to the area led by Scott (1901-04) and Shackleton (1907-09).

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