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Burch Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Burch Lake (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 small oval lake on the northern shore of Taynaya Bay in the Vestfold Hills. It is approximately 400m long and 150m wide. The surface of the lake was marginally beneath sea level in November 1987. The maximum recorded depth is 6m although deeper spots may occur. The salinity of the lake water ranges (in late winter) from 100 gL -1 at the surface to 180gL-1 at the bottom (1987). The water below 4m was anoxic in 1987. The lake is probably permanently stratified and therefore meromictic. The lake provides another step in the spectrum of saline meromictic lakes from near fresh to hypersaline and is thus important in comparison to other such lakes. The lake is named after Dr Michael Burch who wintered at Davis in 1979. During this year he studied the phytoplankton of Ace Lake and other lakes of the Vestfold Hills and this research added significantly to knowledge of lakes in the area.
The lake is named after Dr Michael Burch who wintered at Davis in 1979
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