Tarn Valley
The Tarn Valley (English for mountain lake valley ) is an elevated, ice-free and 2.5 km long valley in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies north of Mount Falconer on the north side of the lower section of the Taylor Valley .
Participants in a campaign run by New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions from 1965 to 1966 explored it. It is named after the four mountain lakes located in this valley ( Harvard Tarn , Yale Tarn , Princeton Tarn and Penn Tarn ), all of which bear the names of well-known US universities. It was named in 1997 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names .
Web links
- Tarn Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tarn Valley on geographic.org (English)