Name details

Algae Lake

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

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

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United States Gazetteer Id 121692

Feature type: Water body (11)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

Narrow, winding lake, 9 mi long and from 0.2 to 1 mi wide, extending in an E-W direction in the ice-free Bunger Hills. First mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47, and named Algae Inlet by the US-ACAN because of the algae reported by Operation HighJump personnel, which cause varying tints to the meltwater ponds overlying the Bunger Hills and to the saline inlets and channels in the Highjump Archipelago area close to the north. Subsequent Soviet expeditions (1956-57) found this "inlet" to be a lake.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 18' 00.0" S
-66.30000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
100° 48' 00.0" E
100.80000°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1977
Catalogue id
1802A6
Photographer
Barkell, Victor (Vic)

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-1961

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