Hourglass Lake
| Hourglass Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Barwick Valley , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The hourglass Lake ( English for hourglass lake ) is a small melt water lake in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located in the Barwick Valley halfway between Webb Lake and Lake Vashka .
The lake was given its descriptive name in 1964 by the American geologist Parker Emerson Calkin (1933–2017) based on its bank shape.
Web links
- Hourglass Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hourglass Lake on geographic.org