Brown lagoon
| Brown lagoon | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Land mass | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 4 '22 " S , 73 ° 39' 50" E | |
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| Tributaries | Brown glacier | |
The Brown Lagoon is a lagoon in the northeast of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean . It is located at the mouth of the Brown Glacier and south of Fairchild Beach .
The lagoon was created as a result of the retreat of the Brown Glacier, after which it is named. This is the Australian biologist K. G. Brown, who worked on Heard in 1951 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions .
Web links
- Brown Lagoon in the directory of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)