Drinkwater Pond
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| Geographical location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 39 '2 " S , 61 ° 7' 53" W | |
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The Drinkwater Poind ( English for drinking water pond ) is a small lake on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the Byers Peninsula, it lies on a plateau at the head of a river that feeds a lagoon 800 m east of Point Smellie on President Beaches .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it so in 1993 because it had served as a drinking water reservoir for a team from the British Antarctic Survey who worked in the area from 1990 to 1991.
Web links
- Drinkwater Pond in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)