Kemp Lake
| Kemp Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
| Drain | Channel to Stefansson Bay | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 25 '25 " S , 59 ° 23' 12" E | |
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| length | 500 m | |
| width | 300 m | |
The Kemp Lake is a rectangular, 500 long and 300 m wide lake in the East Antarctic Kempland . It is east of Mulebreen and 300 m west of Kemp Peak . There is a connection to Stefansson Bay via a canal northwest of Kemp Peak .
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named the lake after the neighboring mountain in 1992. Its namesake is the British marine biologist and oceanographer Stanley Wells Kemp (1882-1945), chief scientist of the British Discovery Investigations from 1924 to 1936.
Web links
- Kemp Lake in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)