Pearse Valley () is an ice-free
valley
A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over ...
long, lying immediately west of
Catspaw Glacier
Catspaw Glacier () is a small alpine glacier just west of Stocking Glacier, flowing south from the slopes north of Taylor Glacier, in Victoria Land. It was so named by Thomas Griffith Taylor of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13
The ' ...
, at the south side of the
Asgard Range
The Asgard Range is a mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It divides Wright Valley from Taylor Glacier and Taylor Valley, and was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1958–59) after Asgard, the home ...
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 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. I ...
. Named by
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.
History
The committee was established ...
(US-ACAN) for
John S. Pearse, biologist at
McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Un ...
, 1961, and the season 1961–62.
Valleys of Victoria Land
McMurdo Dry Valleys
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