Cargo Pond
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| The 1998 water body at the southwestern end of the Alatna Valley is still unnamed on the map sheet from 1988 (southeastern area) | ||
| Geographical location | Convoy Range , Victoria Land , Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Cargo Pond (English for cargo pond ) is a pond enclosed by moraines in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Convoy Range , this permanently frozen body of water lies at the foot of the cliffs at the southern end of the Alatna Valley .
The geologists Parker Emerson Calkin (1933-2017), Roger Hart and Ellory Schempp were evacuated here during a campaign that lasted from 1960 to 1961 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program . Equipment and food that they had left on the ice of the lake were distributed over the years by violent winds in the surrounding moraines. A team led by the New Zealand glaciologist Trevor JH Chinn (* 1937) as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program supplemented its own stocks from the 30-year-old provisions in a campaign that ran from 1989 to 1990. This incident prompted the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1992 to name it.
Web links
- Cargo Pond in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cargo Pond on geographic.org (English)