Vashka, Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lake Vashka (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Water body (11)
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:
A relatively circular lake of 800m-1km diameter, in Barwick Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ME08
Named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1958-59, as an alliteration with Vanda and Vida. Vaska was the name of a dog in Scott's expedition, provided with the support of Perse Grammar School, Cambridge.
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