Nostoc Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Nostoc 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:
ice-covered melt-water lake SW of Mount Provender, NW Shackleton Range, was surveyed by TAE, 11 October 1957, when the expedition's ski-quipped Otter aircraft landed on the lake; named after the fresh-water alga of the genus Nostoc found growing in the lake (APC, 1962, p.23; DOS 610 sheet W 80 28/30, 1963).
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