Tarn Valley

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Tarn Valley
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Waters Harvard Tarn , Penn Tarn , Princeton Tarn , Yale Tarn
Mountains Transantarctic Mountains
Geographical location 77 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 77 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  E
Tarn Valley (Antarctica)
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 .

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