Braunsteffer Lake
| Braunsteffer Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 78 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 800 m | |
The Braunsteffer Lake is a 800 m long lake on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth country . It is located 1.5 km west of Lake Zvezda in the Vestfold Mountains .
Aerial photos of the lake were taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). It was mapped using aerial photographs taken in 1956 by a Soviet Antarctic expedition and those taken during the 1957 to 1958 campaign as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the lake after Claude Braunsteffer, a weather observer at Davis Station in 1959 who was involved in exploring the lakes in the Vestfold Hills.
Web links
- Braunsteffer Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Braunsteffer Lake on geographic.org (English)