Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Jack, Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lake Jack (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 cigar shaped lake just to the north of Blundell Peak in the Larsemann Hills. A field campsite was set up at this lake by members of the 1986-87 ANARE Field Party to allow biological work on a pair of lakes named "Jack" and "Jill" after the nursery rhyme characters. There is an associated hill called Tumbledown Hill.
One of a pair of lakes named after nursery rhyme characters.
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