Fryxellsee
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| Geographical location | Taylor Valley , Antarctic Dry Valleys , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Tributaries | Crescent Stream , Harnish Creek , Aiken Creek , Von Guerard Creek | |
| Drain | none | |
| Islands | Moraine islands | |
| Places on the shore | Lake Fryxell Camp, Lake Fryxell Hut | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 36 '39 " S , 163 ° 9' 9" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 18 m | |
| surface | 7.8 km² | |
| length | 5.8 km | |
| width | 2.1 km | |
| volume | 25,200,000 m³ | |
| Maximum depth | 20 m | |
| Middle deep | 3.2 m | |
| Catchment area | 230 km² | |
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particularities |
endorheic lake |
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The Fryxellsee ( English Lake Fryxell ) is an approximately four and a half kilometer long meromictic lake between the Canada and the Commonwealth glaciers in Victoria Land in the east of the Antarctic continent . It is located in the Taylor Valley of the Antarctic Dry Valleys . The Fryxellsee was discovered and mapped by the Terra Nova Expedition (1910 to 1913) under Sir Robert Falcon Scott and named in 1957 after Fritiof M. Fryxell (1900-1986), a glacial geologist from Augustana College in Illinois ( USA ) .
Like many other Antarctic lakes, the lake is also home to large numbers of prokaryotic creatures .
Web links
Commons : Lake Fryxell - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Antarctic Lakes: an Eldorado for prokaryotes ( Memento from February 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- Look for publications on Lake Fryxell in the Australian Antarctic Data Center