Gull Lake (South Georgia)
| Gull Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | South Georgia | |
| Drain | to King Edward Cove | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 17 ′ 15 ″ S , 36 ° 30 ′ 49 ″ W | |
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| surface | 3.9 km² | |
The Gull Lake is a lake with a diameter of 250 m to the north of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It is located near the southwest bank of King Edward Cove, half a mile south of the Grytviken whaling station .
The German zoologist and doctor August Emil Alfred Szielasko (1864–1928), who mapped the area around the lake during a visit to South Georgia in 1906, named it as Seagull Lake . Robert Cushman Murphy translated this term into English in 1947, after visiting the lake in November 1912. The English language form has been recognized by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee since 1954 .
Web links
- Gull Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gull Lake on geographic.org (English)