SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Medusa Lake

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

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

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Place ID: 18104
Name ID: 134452

Origin

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

Narrative

A slightly brackish lake,with an area of about 16ha and a shoreline of 3.5km located in the central part of Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills . It is the same height as Ephyra Lake, which is directly adjacent. In 1994 these lakes were joined by a shallow and narrow connection. First mapped on the original Vestfold Hills map Edition 1(1958)

Named For

The shape of the lake is reminiscent of a medusa jellyfish. Medusa Lake has been an informal name for this lake for many years, so much so that that the adjoining and smaller Lake Ephyra was so named because an ephyra is a juvenile medusa.

Location

Latitude:

68° 34' 39.0" S

-68.57750°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 14' 48.0" E

78.24667°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

28 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Nathan Saunders 2009

Catalogue id: IA21947
Caption: Medusa Lake, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1100 feet. Looking North.
Photographer: Saunders, Nathan

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

vest_hills_gis

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:

1-May-2006

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