Las Vegas Valley | Elizabeth Taylor | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James Taylor | Taylor Swift | Death Valley | Silicon Valley | San Fernando Valley | Taylor | Squaw Valley, Placer County, California | Squaw Valley | Billy Taylor | Lord & Taylor | Zachary Taylor | Shenandoah Valley | Willamette Valley | John Taylor | Charles Taylor | Valley of the Kings | Tennessee Valley Authority | Happy Valley | San Joaquin Valley | Cecil Taylor | Steve Taylor | Rio Grande Valley | Rift Valley Province | Hudson Valley | Central Valley | Rod Taylor | Mick Taylor |
It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1997 after Osmund Holm-Hansen, a plant physiologist, who, working in the 1959–60 season, was one of the first American scientists to visit and conduct research in both Taylor Valley and Wright Valley.