Deep Lake

This article describes the lake on the Antarctic Ross Island. For the lake of the same name in the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land, see Deep Lake (Princess Elisabeth Land) .

Deep Lake
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Geographical location	Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica )
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Coordinates	77 ° 32 '34 "  S , 166 ° 15' 8"  O Coordinates: 77 ° 32 '34 "  S , 166 ° 15' 8"  O

The Deep Lake ( English for deep lake ) is an elongated lake , which is located about one kilometer north of Cape Barne on the Antarctic Ross Island .

The lake was mapped and named by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907–1909) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

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