Name details

Volturnus Lake

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

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

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Bulgaria Gazetteer Id 139215

Feature type: Water body

Origin

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

Narrative

The roughly triangular lake extending 225 m in N-S direction and 215 m in E-W direction on the SW coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. Surface area 3.15 ha. Situated 140 m from the sea and centred 965 m E of Rish Point, 440 m S of Clark Nunatak and 1.4 km NW of Amadok Point.

Named For

Named after Volturnus, a Roman deity of water and rivers.

Location

Latitude:
62° 40' 16.4" S
-62.67122°
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Longitude:
60° 54' 48.0" W
-60.91333°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
27-Feb-2020

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