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Taylor Valley is the southernmost of the three large McMurdo Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains, located west of McMurdo Sound.
The Taylor and Wright Valleys are major ice-free valleys within the Transantarctic Mountains. These "dry valleys" include hummocky moraines, with frozen lakes, saline ponds, sand dunes, and meltwater streams.
Why are the large Dry Valleys (Taylor, Wright, and Victoria) so different from the rest of the continent? The answer lies in the mile-high Transantarctic Mountains. The Valleys are nestled between the mountains, which serve as a barrier, largely blocking them from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Among the most interesting—and most puzzling—features of the Dry Valleys lakes is the reddish stain seeping out of Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. The reddish discoloration, known as Blood Falls, appears in this false-color image.
Nov 1, 2013 · The Friis Hills rise 2,000 feet (600 meters) above Antarctica's Taylor Valley, one of the "Dry Valleys" west of McMurdo Sound. Fossils show tundra mosses and a lake once covered the...
The three largest of the McMurdo Dry Valleys are the Taylor Valley, the Wright Valley and the Victoria Valley. Various glacier tongues frame the valleys, such as the Canada Glacier, Taylor Glacier, Fountain Glacier, Clark Glacier, Commonwealth Glacier and Victoria Upper Glacier.
Jun 5, 2015 · Home to Taylor Glacier, striking rock outcrops, and Blood Falls, the valley is one of the most remote and geologically exotic places in the world. While ice and snow covers most of Antarctica, Taylor Valley and the other dry valleys are conspicuously bare.
