Name details

Lake Vanda

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 114635

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 lake in the middle of the Wright Valley, approximately 6km long as of 2015. Sweepstake Reach connects the feature to Lake Bull at the east. Since the 1990's the level of the lake has been rising, resulting in the former NZ Vanda Station being dismantled and that position now being partially underwater. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ME08

Named For

Named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1948-59. Vanda was the name of a dog, used by Dr Bull, leader of this expedition, in the British North Greenland Expedition (1952-54).

Location

Latitude:
77° 32' 00.0" S
-77.53333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
161° 33' 00.0" E
161.55000°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
94 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
LINZ AntTopo50 series
Source Identifier:
ME08 : Edition 1.01 Published 2014
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
LINZ
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
24-Jul-1959

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