Name details
Crooked Lake
Crooked Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Crooked 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.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
- Krok Lake (United States of America)
- Krokvatnet (Russia)
Narrative
An irregularly shaped lake about 5 km long in the south-east part of the Vestfold Hills. Mapped as two lakes by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Krokvatnet (The Crooked Lake) and Nyrevatnet (The Kidney Lake).
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Location
Images
©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1998
- Catalogue id
- 2620C5
- Photographer
- Cianchi, Andrew (Andy)
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