Hamberg Lakes

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Hamberg Lakes
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Geographical location South Georgia
Drain to Moraine Fjord
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Coordinates 54 ° 19 '32 "  S , 36 ° 31' 30"  W Coordinates: 54 ° 19 '32 "  S , 36 ° 31' 30"  W.
Hamberg Lakes (South Georgia)
Hamberg Lakes

The Hamberg Lakes are three merging lakes on South Georgia . They are located near the northern foothills of the Hamberg Glacier and 1.5 km west of Moraine Fjord . The lake group consists of the Upper , Middle and Lower Hamberg Lake .

The first measurements of the lakes were carried out by participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under Otto Nordenskjöld . The German zoologist and doctor August Emil Alfred Szielasko (1864–1928), who mapped the area during a visit to South Georgia in 1906, jointly named it as Hamberg Lake . The South Georgia Survey identified them as two lakes in its survey campaign between 1956 and 1957 and adapted the designation in the English translation accordingly. Its name is derived from the glacier of the same name. It is named after the Swedish geographer, mineralogist and Arctic explorer Axel Hamberg (1863–1933). Landsat recordings in 2002 showed that the retreat of the Hamberg Glacier has meanwhile created a third lake.

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