Radok Lake

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

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

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Place ID: 11822
Name ID: 130513

Feature type: Water body (11)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A meltwater lake about 4 mi long and marked by a slender glacier tongue feeding into it from the W, lying 3 mi SW of Beaver Lake and 15 mi SE of the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted by ANARE from air photos taken by the RAAF Antarctic Flight in 1956. Named for Uwe Radok, lecturer in meteorology at the University of Melbourne, who greatly assisted ANARE's glaciological program.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
70° 52' 00.0" S
-70.86667°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
68° 00' 00.0" E
68.00000°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images


©Adrian Corvino 2004
Catalogue id
IA16516
Caption
Photo taken from the plateau above northern end Radok Lake looking in a southerly direction towards Mount Meredith about 35 kilometres away. Pagodroma Gorge is behind the point protruding into Radok Lake on the left side of the photo.
Photographer
Corvino, Adrian

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-1962

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