Name details

Lake Miers

Miers, Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Lake Miers  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113915

Feature type: Water body (11)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A small lake approximately 2.3km long, being just east of the snouts of the Miers Glacier and Adams Glacier which feed the lake with meltwater from Miers Stream and Adams Stream. Lower Miers Stream flows from the lake down Miers Valley during the warmest weather to reach the coast near Becker Point, and approximately about 22km south-southwest of Cape Chocolate. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MG10

Named For

Photographed and plotted by the Blue Glacier Party of the New Zealand Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1956-58, in September 1957, who named it after the Miers Glacier.

Location

Latitude:
78° 05' 50.8" S
-78.09744°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
163° 50' 47.5" E
163.84652°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
158 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 18_34 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
24-Jul-1959

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