Folkertssee
| Folkertssee | ||
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| Geographical location | La Grange Nunatakker , Shackleton Range , Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| Drain | lies on the edge of the Slessor glacier | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 28 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 246 m | |
The Folkertssee is a lake in the Shackleton Range , part of the Transantarctic Mountains in Coats Land east of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf . It is located northeast of Mount Skidmore in the La Grange Nunatak core on the edge of the Slessor Glacier .
The lake was named in the Antarctic summer of 1987/1988 along with other previously unnamed geographical objects by participants in the GEISHA ( Geological Expedition into the Shackleton Range ) of the Alfred Wegener Institute . This and 7 other name suggestions from GEISHA were together with 7 suggestions from the expeditions GANOVEX V and VII on 9/10. Confirmed in May 1994 by the German State Committee for the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and for the International Arctic Science Committee (ISAC) and reported to the SCAR.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1: 250,000-scale topographic reconnaissance map of the Shackleton Range from 20 ° -31 ° W to 80 ° -81 ° S in Antarctica. Mapped, edited and published by the US Geological Survey in cooperation with the National Science Foundation, 1983 (on Wikimedia Commons)
- ↑ Standing Committee for Geographical Names : Directory of German-language geographical names of the Antarctic. Version 2.14, June 13, 2014 (Introduction) (List of sources) , here sources 0079–0082. Retrieved May 15, 2019
- ↑ Folkertssee in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on May 15, 2019