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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Kroner Lake (RUS) 62° 59' 00.0" S 60° 35' 00.0" W Water body
Name ID: 118888 Place ID: 7854

Kroner Lake (GBR) 62° 58' 46.3" S 60° 34' 30.8" W Water body
Name ID: 109672 Place ID: 7854

N of Penfold Point, Whalers Bay (q.v.), Deception Island, from its shape was called Tokroningen [=the two-kroner piece] by the whalers in the period 1905-31 (Holtedahl, 1929, p.38); called Laguna Galvarino by CAE after the Auracanian chief Galvarino (b.c.1557) (Chile. IGM map, 1947); following survey by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit, 1948-49, called Lake Pennilea after Loch Pennilea, Scotland, to mark the services of a Scotsman with the Survey Unit (BA chart 3202, 23.ix.1949); renamed Kroner Lake (BA, 1952, p.11; chart 3202, 27.xi.1953; APC, 1955, p.13). Laguna Pennilea (Chile. DNH chart 501, 1953; IHA, 1974, p.224). Laguna Verde [=green lake], so called descriptively by AAE (Argentina. MM chart 100, 1953; Pierrou, 1970, p.712). Lac Pennilea or Lac Kroner (France. SHM, 1954, p.46). Lago Pennilea (Argentina. MM chart K, 1954). Lago Sulfuroso [=sulphurous lake], so called in reference to its chemical content, or Lago Verde (Frenguelli and Orlando, 1958, Fig. 3). Lago Kroner (Casertano, 1964, map p.34). During the volcanic eruption of February 1969 the lake was breached on its SE side to form a lagoon.

Kroner Lake (USA) 62° 59' 00.0" S 60° 35' 00.0" W Water body
Name ID: 127617 Place ID: 7854

Circular lake 0.2 mi in diameter lying immediately W of Whalers Bay, on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands. The name Tokroningen, meaning the two kroner piece, was given this lake by whalers during the period 1905-31. The original name was altered to Kroner Lake in 1950 by the UK-APC following a survey of Deception Island by Lt. Cdr. D.N. Penfold, RN, in 1948-49.

Pennilea, Laguna (CHL) 62° 59' 00.0" S 60° 33' 00.0" W Water body
Name ID: 106079 Place ID: 7854

Durante el período 1905-1931 se le conoció por los balleneros como Tokroningen. En 1950, se alteró el nombre a lago Kroner por una expedición Británica, después de un levantamiento de la isla Decepción, por el capitán de corbeta D.N. Penfold, RN, efectuado en 1948-1949. Laguna de unos 450 metros de largo por unos 300 metros de ancho, situada directamente al N y a unos 250 metros de punta Penfold, caleta Balleneros, isla Decepción.

Verde, laguna (ARG) 62° 59' 00.0" S 60° 35' 00.0" W Water body
Name ID: 102408 Place ID: 7854

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