Name details

Opitsvet Lake

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

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

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Bulgaria Gazetteer Id 139224

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 lake extending 420 m in W-E direction and 410 m in N-S direction on the SE coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. Surface area 11 ha. Separated from the waters of Brunow Bay on the E and Bransfield Strait on the S sea by a 70 to 150 m wide strip of land. Situated at the base of Samuel Point and centred 600 m E of Needle Peak and 2.78 km SW of Vazov Point.

Named For

Named after the settlement of Opitsvet and the eponymous marsh in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Latitude:
62° 43' 37.0" S
-62.72694°
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Longitude:
60° 09' 12.0" W
-60.15333°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

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Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
27-Feb-2020

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