Name details

Rubber Duck Lake

Rubber Duck Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 137384

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 small, blue, freshwater duck shaped lake, approximately 150m across, 1km east of Watts Hut in the Vestfold Hills. The lake is a useful navigation point when walking between Crooked Lake and Watts Hut.

Named For

The distinctive shape of the lake lends itself to the name. The name is consistent with a number of other lakes in the Vestfolds, which have names based on their distinctive shapes. These include Cat Lake, Tassie Lake, Shield Lake, Lebed Lake (Russian for Swan Lake) and Medusa Lake to name a few.

Location

Latitude:
69° 00' 00.0" S
-69.00000°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
78° 00' 00.0" E
78.00000°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
15 m
Accurate to 5m

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Vestfold Hills 1:25000 Topographic Dataset
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( Vestfold ***
Hills ***
1:25000 ***
Topographic ***
GIS ***
Dataset ***)
Source Scale:
1:10000
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:
5-Apr-2012

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