Price Terrace
# Price Terrace

Price Terrace (77°19′40″S 161°18′06″E﻿ / ﻿77.32778°S 161.30167°E﻿ / -77.32778; 161.30167) is a relatively level ice-free area (c. 1 square mile) between LaBelle Valley and Berkey Valley in the Cruzen Range of Victoria Land. The terrace rises to 1250 m, about 750 m above Barwick Valley close southward. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2005 after P. Buford Price, Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, a United States Antarctic Program principal investigator for cosmic ray studies near McMurdo Station in 1989, and neutrino astrophysics research at Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in 1991.

