Name details

Pineapple Lake

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

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

If this information is incorrect, please e-mail mapping@aad.gov.au

Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1242

Feature type: Water body

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

An elongated frozen lake between the Sørsdal Glacier and the Vestfold Hills. The ice is between 3 and 4 m thick and the water at least 70 m deep. The water underneath the ice is fresh. The ice surface is flat in places with ridges and hummocks in other places.

Named For

The name was proposed when a tin of pineapple juice was found nearby.

Location

Latitude:
68° 39' 19.8" S
-68.65550°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
78° 13' 19.9" E
78.22219°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
2 m
Accurate to 5m

Images


©Richard 'Tubby' Seton 2009
Catalogue id
IA21973
Caption
Pineapple Lake, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 900F feet. Looking West.
Photographer
Seton, Richard

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( vest_hills_gis - Vestfold Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset )
Source Scale:
1:5000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Metadata for coordinates and origin of topographic data.

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
3-Dec-1984

Display Scales

Note These display scales were chosen for use by Australia, with an emphasis on East Antarctica.
          For example, selecting 'Aus_display_scale_20M' would only return names that would appear on a 1:20 million scale map.

Aus_display_scale_20M: No      Aus_display_scale_10M: No     
Aus_display_scale_5M: No      Aus_display_scale_2M: No     
Aus_display_scale_1M: No      Aus_display_scale_500k: No     
Aus_display_scale_250k: No      Aus_display_scale_100k: Yes     
Aus_display_scale_50k: Yes      Aus_display_scale_25k: Yes     
Aus_display_scale_10k: No      Aus_display_scale_5k: No     
Aus_display_scale_1k: No     


Related information

Biodiversity
View fauna, flora or both within 1.0 degree of this location

Place names
View Australian or international place names within 1.0 degree of this location.