Blue Lake (Antarctica)

Blue Lake
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Geographical location	Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica )
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Coordinates	77 ° 32 '38 "  S , 166 ° 10' 55"  O Coordinates: 77 ° 32 '38 "  S , 166 ° 10' 55"  O
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

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Blue Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Blue Lake on geographic.org (English)