Priscu Stream

Priscu Stream (coord|77|39|S|162|45|E|) is a meltwater stream, 3,000 m long, flowing southwest from southeast end of Lacroix Glacier to the northeast end of Lake Bonney in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1996 after John C. Priscu, ecologist, Montana State University; principal investigator from 1984 on numerous studies of marine and fresh water systems in the McMurdo region and the author of numerous papers on the ecology of this area; led first WINFLY expedition (1991) into the McMurdo Dry Valleys.