Ardley Lake
| Ardley Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Ardley Island , South Shetland Islands , Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 13 ′ S , 58 ° 56 ′ W | |
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| length | 100 km | |
The Ardley Lake (in Chile Laguna Ripamonti, Chinese 月牙湖 , Pinyin Yuèyá Hú - "Crescent Lake ") is a 100 m long lake on Ardley Island in Maxwell Bay of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is the largest and only permanent lake on the west side of the island.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2007 based on the name of the island on which it is home. Its namesake is Richard Arthur Blyth Ardley (1906–1942), officer on board the RRS Discovery II as part of the British Discovery Investigations (1929–1931 and 1931–1933). Chilean scientists, however, named him in 1984 after Julio Ripamonti Barros (* 1916), architect of Chilean research bases in Antarctica .
Web links
- Ardley Lake in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yueya Hu in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed January 15, 2020
- ↑ 月牙湖 - 中国 极地 考察 知识库 at polar.org.cn, accessed January 15, 2020