Amos Lake (Signy Island)
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| Geographical location | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 42 '11 " S , 45 ° 39' 7" W | |
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Amos Lake is a small lake south of Thulla Point on Signy Island , an island in the Southern Orkney Islands in the South Atlantic .
Amos Lake is one of the Signy Islands lakes that have been intensively studied. Radiocarbon dating of the lake's basic sediments shows that the lake was formed less than 12,000 years ago. Many of the island's lakes suffer from animal-induced eutrophication (the overgrowth of aquatic plants from excessive nutrient levels in the water), with Amos Lake and Heywood Lake being the hardest hit. In spring and summer, the water of Amos Lake blooms due to increased nutrient enrichment with a dense phytoplankton growth.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the lake in 1974 after Stephen Christopher Amos (* 1946), a limnologist from the British Antarctic Survey who lived on Signy Island a. a. had explored this lake.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Amos Lake ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved January 31, 2014.
- ^ Gene E. Likens : Lake Ecosystem Ecology: A Global Perspective . Academic Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-12-382003-7 , pp. 2343 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Name details: Amos Lake (Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory). Australian Antarctic Data Center , accessed January 31, 2014 .
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 33-34 (English).