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)
Verkhneye, Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lake Verkhneye (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Water body
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A lake in the south-eastern part of the Vestfold Hills, about 2 km north-east of Crooked Lake. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.
Named Ozero Verkhneye (Upper Lake) by the Soviet Expedition.
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