Blue Lake (Antarctica)
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Geographical location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
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Coordinates | 77 ° 32 '38 " S , 166 ° 10' 55" O | |
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particularities |
permanently frozen over |
The Blue Lake ( English for blue lake ) is the largest of the numerous frozen small freshwater lakes not far from Cape Royds on the Antarctic Ross Island .
The lake is located about one kilometer in a north-northeast direction from the base camp of the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909), which is still preserved today, under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . Participants of the expedition gave the lake its name because of the intense blue color of its ice.
See also
Web links
- Blue Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blue Lake on geographic.org (English)