Fritsen Valley [SEP] continent
Fritsen Valley
Fritsen Valley () is an upland valley to the north of the Mount Hercules summit area and west of Harris Ledge in the Olympus Range, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (2004) after Christian H. Fritsen, a microbiologist with the Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, and a United States Antarctic Program investigator of pack ice and lake ice from about 1992.
of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Marsh investigated basement sill at McMurdo Dry Valleys sites in seven field seasons, 1995–2005, for the United States Antarctic Program.
Mount Hercules is separated from Mount Jason by the Nakai Snowfield. Harris Ledge lies to the north, and just west of it is Fritsen Valley.