Name details

Floating Island Lake

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 134439

Feature type: Water body

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Narrative

A small lake visible on the 1991 Interim Image Map but not shown on the 1971 map, located on the stream about 300 m south of Rookery Creek. On the 1971 map this stream is erroneously shown flowing to the sea; in fact it terminates in Floating Island Lake above the coastal cliffs. The interesting feature of the lake is the presence of two floating peat islands which move about with shifts in wind direction. The names Floating Island Tarn and its alternative, Floating Island Lake, have been in common usage for many years, and the former is used in "Subantarctic Macquarie Island: Environment and Biology", P.M.Selkirk, R.D.Seppelt & D.R.Selkirk, Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
54° 31' 46.0" S
-54.52944°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 56' 06.0" E
158.93500°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
0 m
Unknown precision

Images


©Ben Raymond 2009
Catalogue id
IA16692
Caption
Floating Island Lake from near the Overland Track
Photographer
Raymond, Ben

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Macquarie Island Vegetation and Drainage Structure Data Set,Mac Island Contours from AIRSAR Aug 2000
Source Identifier:
MIvegmap,macca_contour_gis
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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