Name details

Lake Eggers

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113224

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 ice-covered lake, approximately 500m diameter, located just east of Rainbow Ridge in central Brown Peninsula, Scott Coast, Victoria Land.

Named For

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1999) after Alan J. Eggers, Department of Geology, Victoria University of Wellington, who, in December 1975 as a member of Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), sampled the Scallop Hill Formation at the N end of Brown Peninsula.

Location

Latitude:
78° 05' 34.1" S
-78.09281°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
165° 25' 06.0" E
165.41832°
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Altitude:
217 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
0.5m Antarctic Imagery Mosaic, DigitalGlobe Inc 2018
Source Identifier:
103001000850B700
Source Scale:
1:1889.76
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:
4-Nov-1999

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