Fontus Lake
| Fontus Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Livingston Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 39 '40.4 " S , 61 ° 0' 19" W | |
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| surface | 1.9 ha | |
| length | 150 m | |
| width | 100 m | |
The Fontus Lake ( English ; Bulgarian езеро Фонт esero Font ) is an oval, in a south-southwest-north-northeast orientation 150 m long, 100 m wide and 1.9 hectare large lake on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the Byers Peninsula , it is 600 m northeast of Dometa Point and 740 m south of Negro Hill in the middle section of the South Beaches . It is separated from Bransfieldstrasse by a strip of land 53 to 64 m wide.
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2020 after Fontus , god of springs, wells and flowing waters from Roman mythology .
Web links
- Fontus Lake in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)