Name details
Laternula Lake
Laternula Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Laternula 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 lake about 1 km SSW of Clear Lake on Mule Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. The lake was visited by an ANARE Biological and Geological party in January 1972 who found it to have unique layered deposits of the shells of the clam, Laternula elliptica around it.
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Location
Images
©Henk Brolsma 2003
- Catalogue id
- IA16549
- Caption
- Laterniula Lake is in the centre of the photo. View is looking in a south easterly direction with Crooked Fjord adjacent to the ice free area and the S¿rsdal Glacier beyond it.
- Photographer
- Brolsma, Henk
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