Beaver Lake (Antarctica)
| Beaver Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Prince Charles Mountains , Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica | |
| Tributaries | McKinnon Glacier | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 48 ′ S , 68 ° 20 ′ E | |
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| length | 11 km | |
| width | 8 kilometers | |
The Beaver Lake is an 11 km long and 8 km wide lake at the edge of the Prince Charles Mountains in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is enclosed to the south and east by the Flagstone Bench and the Jetty Peninsula and lies at the southern end of a glacier field with rugged ice at a distance of 27 km east-southeast of the Aramis Range .
The lake was discovered in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . In September 1957, Australian scientists established a base camp here, with the lake serving as a landing area for de Havilland Canada DHC-2 aircraft . The descriptive name Beaver for this type of aircraft gave the lake its name.
Web links
- Beaver Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Beaver Lake on geographic.org (English)