Lake Buddha
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| Geographical location | Denton Hills , Victoria Land East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Lake Buddha is a Glacial Lake in Denton Hills on the Scott Coast in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies on the southern edge of the Joyce Glacier in a valley known as Shangri-la .
Participants in a campaign that lasted from 1960 to 1961 as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions named it after the religious founder Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC) based on the aforementioned valley .
Web links
- Lake Buddha in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lake Buddha on geographic.org (English)