Don Quixote Pond
| Don Quixote Pond | ||
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| Geographical location | Wright Valley , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| surface | 30 km² | |
The Don Quixote Pond is a lake in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the North Fork of the Wright Valley it is 1.7 km northeast of the Dais Col . The frozen lake consists of fresh water laid over a layer of salt water.
Its name, based on the literary figure of Don Quixote by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes , was given by geologists at Illinois State University who studied the hydrogeology in this area between 1973 and 1976 .
Web links
- Don Quixote Pond in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Don Quixote Pond on geographic.org (English)