Dingle Lake
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| Geographical location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 78 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Dingle Lake is a saltwater lake on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth country . In the Vestfold Mountains it is located on the Breidnes Peninsula immediately west of Stinear Lake .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the lake after William Robert John Dingle (1920-2016), head of Davis Station in 1957.
Web links
- Dingle Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dingle Lake on geographic.org (English)