SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Ace Lake

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

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

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Place ID: 32
Name ID: 1156

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

A lake on Long Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. This saline lake was investigated by biologists from Davis in 1974 who had spent nine months searching for a saline lake containing copepods and finding them in this lake, considered it a winner, an 'ace'.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

68° 28' 18.5" S

-68.47181°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 11' 16.1" E

78.18781°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

8.8 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Belinda Reynolds 2009

Catalogue id: IA21838
Caption: Ace Lake, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1500 feet. Looking Southwest.
Photographer: Reynolds, Belinda

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Metadata ( vest_hills_gis - Vestfold Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset )

Source Scale:

1:5000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

Australian Antarctic Division

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

Metadata for coordinates and origin of topographic data.

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

Unknown

Related information

Biodiversity
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Place names
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