Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Basalt Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Basalt Lake (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Water body
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Lake located in one of three basalt outcrops, with "organ-pipe" formations in the rocks surrounding the lake, 1.9 km E of Usnea Plug and 1.5 km SE of Chester Cone, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands (APC, 1993)
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