Johnstone Lake
| Johnstone Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 29 ′ 39 ″ S , 78 ° 24 ′ 25 ″ E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 8 m below sea level | |
| length | 500 m | |
| width | 200 m | |
The Johnstone Lake is an oval, hypersaline, 500 m long and 200 m wide lake on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth country . In the Vestfold Mountains it is located 4.5 km west-northwest of the Platcha weather station in a terraced area.
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after the biologist Gavin Johnstone, who was involved in the scientific exploration of the Vestfold Mountains and who had written a monograph on the biology there.
Web links
- Johnston Lake in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)