Lago Gransasso
| Lago Gransasso | ||
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| Geographical location | Inexpressible Island ( East Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 54 '36 " S , 163 ° 40' 48" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 86 m | |
| length | 135 m | |
| width | 100 m | |
| Maximum depth | 2.5 m | |
The Lago Gransasso (of Italian gran sasso , large stone ' ) is a 135 m long, 100 m wide and 2.5 m deep lake on Inexpressible Iceland in the Terra Nova Bay in front of the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is 2.7 km south-southwest of the place where Victor Campbell's group spent the winter in a snow cave on the Terra Nova expedition of British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott in 1913.
Vittorio Libera explored the lake on an Italian Antarctic expedition that ran from 1988 to 1989. He named it after a large rock on the south bank of the lake.
Web links
- Gransasso, Lago in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)