Burke Basin
Coordinates: 68 ° 28 ′ S , 78 ° 18 ′ E
The Burke Basin is a roughly triangular, 1 km long, 0.8 km wide and only 32 m deep lake basin off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is located in the middle of Taynaya Bay . It is one of the seven lake basins in the Vestfold Mountains in which the salinity increases with increasing depth .
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1995 after Chris Burke, who worked at Davis Station in 1983 and examined the photoautotrophically active sulfur bacteria in the meromictic waters of the Vestfold Mountains.
Web links
- Burke Basin in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)