Krok Lake
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Krok Lake Crooked Lake, Krokvatnet |
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| Geographical location | Vestfoldberge , Princess Elisabeth Land , Antarctica | |
| Tributaries | Tierney Creek , Tallow River | |
| Drain | Tierney River | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 78 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 22 m | |
| length | 6 km | |
The Krok Lake ( Norwegian Krokvatnet 'Krummer See' ) is a 6 km long and irregularly shaped lake on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is located in the south-eastern part of the Vestfold Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers, who also gave the lake its descriptive name, mapped it as one of supposedly two lakes based on aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . They descriptively named the second lake Nyrevatnet (Norwegian for kidney [shaped] lake ). The analysis of aerial photographs by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from 1957 to 1958 showed that in reality there is a single lake. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred in 1965 the Norwegian naming the first lake in a partial translation into English. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia decided against a full translation with Crooked Lake .
Web links
- Krok Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Krok Lake on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map 12890: Vestfold Hills (PDF, 18.8 MB) in the Map Catalog of the Australian Antarctic Data Center, accessed on April 27, 2020