Name details
Highway Lake
Highway Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Highway Lake (The name as it would appear on a map)
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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
A long narrow freshwater lake in the Vestfold Hills (measuring 1.25 km x 250 m wide at its widest point), which serves when frozen as a quick, direct route for travel as a "highway" between Long Fjord and Taynaya Bay. It overflows into Taynaya Bay. The water in the lake is slightly salty.
Named For
Descriptive as the lake when frozen serves as a quick, direct route for travel.
Location
Images
©Nathan Saunders 2009
- Catalogue id
- IA21904
- Caption
- Highway Lake, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1500 feet. Looking East.
- Photographer
- Saunders, Nathan
Map
Source
Comments
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