Tyrol Valley
| Tyrol Valley | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Tyrol Valley is a high-altitude and non-iced valley in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range , it is east of Mount Baldr .
The Austrian biologist Heinz Janetschek (1913–1997), who worked in this region from 1961 to 1962 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program , named it after his homeland, the Austrian state of Tyrol .
Web links
- Tyrol Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tyrol Valley on geographic.org (English)