Lake Pirocchi
| Lake Pirocchi | ||
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| Geographical location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 30 ′ 54 ″ O | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 81 m | |
| length | 300 m | |
| width | 190 m | |
The Lago Pirocchi is a 300 m long, 190 m wide and permanently zugefrorener lake at the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies 3.3 km northeast of Mount Gerlache and east of Terra Nova Bay .
Vittorio Libera explored the lake on an Italian Antarctic expedition that ran from 1988 to 1989. Italian scientists named him in 1997 after Livio Pirocchi (1909–1985), director of the Italian State Institute for Hydrobiology in Pallanza on Lake Maggiore (today Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ) from 1967 to 1979.
Web links
- Pirocchi, Lago in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)