Engelhardt Lake

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Engelhardt Lake
Engelhardt Subglacial Lake
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Geographical location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
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Coordinates 83 ° 43 ′  S , 157 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 83 ° 43 ′  S , 157 ° 30 ′  W
Engelhardt Lake (Antarctica)
Engelhardt Lake
surface 339 km²

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Subglacial lake

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The Engelhardt Lake is a 339 km² large subglacial lake at the Gould Coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd lands . It lies under the Whillans Ice Stream .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2019 based on the naming of the neighboring Engelhardt Ice Ridge . Its namesake is the US geophysicist Hermann Engelhardt from the California Institute of Technology , who was involved in four campaigns between 1991 and 1996 in drilling projects of the United States Antarctic Program in the Whillans and Kamb Ice Streams .

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