Name details

Lake Karentz

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 135669

Feature type: Water body (11)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

An ice-covered lake, 2.4km long, lying west of Mount Swinford and Ringer Glacier, in Ringer Valley, Saint Johns Range, Victoria Land. The lake receives melt from short glaciers on the headwall of Ringer Valley and from slopes in the Mount Swinford area. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MD08

Named For

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2005) after Deneb Karentz, United States Antarctic Program (USAP) marine biologist with 17 field seasons in Antarctica, 1986-2005, including research at Palmer Station and McMurdo Station and on several cruises in Bellingshausen Sea and Ross Sea; from 1992, instructor in the advanced biology course taught at McMurdo Station.

Location

Latitude:
77° 15' 41.2" S
-77.26145°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
161° 48' 24.8" E
161.80688°
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Altitude:
934 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 17_35 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
20-Oct-2005

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