Midge Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Midge Lake (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Water body
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
NW side of Chester Cone, Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, following geological work by BAS, 1975-76, was so named from the chironomid midge Belgica antarctica, a rare and localized insect in the South Shetland Islands, the imagos of which are found beneath rock debris surrounding the lake (APC, 1980, p.4; Smellie and others, 1980, map Fig.2 facing p.57).
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