Hobbs pool
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| Geographical location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 18 '4 " S , 67 ° 32' 24" W | |
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The Hobbs Pool is one of the tidal certain lake on the Rymill coast of Palmer Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located south of Horse Bluff on the edge of the ice shelf of George VI Sound .
Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey carried out oceanographic and limnological studies here in 1974. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after Simon Alistair Hobbs (* 1943), who worked for the British Antarctic Survey on the opposite island of Alexander I in 1973 and 1974 .
Web links
- Hobbs Pool in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)