SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Glider Lake

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

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

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Place ID: 5388
Name ID: 1261

Origin

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

Narrative

Glider Lake is a triangular shaped saline lake approximately 500 m by 150 m in area on the southern shore of Taynaya Bay in the Vestfold Hills. The lake surface is marginally beneath sea level, and the maximum recorded depth is 9 m. It is probable that the lake is permanently stratified and therefore meromictic.The lake has been named as its shape looks something like a hang glider.

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Location

Latitude:

68° 27' 40.3" S

-68.46119°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 17' 06.0" E

78.28500°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

-1.1 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

No images of this place could be found.

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:

27-Apr-1995

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