Block Lake (South Georgia)

Block Lake
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Geographical location	South Georgia
Drain	to Husvik Harbor (side bay of Stromness Bay )
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Coordinates	54 ° 10 '17 " S , 36 ° 43' 33" W Coordinates: 54 ° 10 '17 " S , 36 ° 43' 33" W.

Block Lake is a lake on South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It is located west-northwest of the Husvik whaling station in the Karrakatta Valley . The lake was dammed and served as a reservoir for the station.

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the lake in 1991 after William Charles Block (* 1937). The zoologist Block researched invertebrates and has been head of the Terrestrial Zoology and Microbiology Division of the British Antarctic Survey since 1976 . He worked many summers on South Georgia and Signy Island .

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