Hotoke Ike

Hotoke Ike
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Geographical location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
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Coordinates	69 ° 28 '35 " S , 39 ° 33' 37" E Coordinates: 69 ° 28 '35 " S , 39 ° 33' 37" E

Hotoke Ike (from Japanese 仏池 ) is a small lake on the Prince Harald Coast of Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . On the Skarvsnes peninsula on the east bank of Lützow-Holm-Bucht lies in the southwest of Kizahashi Beach .

In this so-called lake moss pillars were first ( English moss pillars ) of the genus Leptobryum discovered. Japanese scholars named him in 2012 after the common name for Buddha in Japan .

Web links

Hotoke Ike in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Ryosuke Nakai et al., Microflorae of aquatic moss pillars in a freshwater lake, East Antarctica, based on fatty acid and 16S rRNA gene analyzes. In: Polar Biology, 35, pp. 425-433 (2012), doi: 10.1007 / s00300-011-1090-2 .

[1] Ryosuke Nakai et al., Microflorae of aquatic moss pillars in a freshwater lake, East Antarctica, based on fatty acid and 16S rRNA gene analyzes. In: Polar Biology, 35, pp. 425-433 (2012), doi: 10.1007 / s00300-011-1090-2 .