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)
Crooked Lake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Crooked 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.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
An irregularly shaped lake about 5 km long in the south-east part of the Vestfold Hills. Mapped as two lakes by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Krokvatnet (The Crooked Lake) and Nyrevatnet (The Kidney Lake).
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