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Barkell, Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lake Barkell (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.
A freshwater lake on Chapman Ridge, in Kemp Land, about 2 km west of Lake Reynolds. The crustacean Daphniopsis studeri found in the lake was the first record west of the Vestfold Hills.
Named after Vic Barkell, helicopter pilot at Mawson in the 1978-79 summer who greatly assisted the lake survey.
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