Lake Canopus
| Lake Canopus | ||
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| Geographical location | Victoria Land East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Lake Canopus is a small lake in Wright Valley of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is 65 m above the south bank of Lake Vanda .
Participants in the eighth campaign, which ran from 1963 to 1964 as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions, named him after Canopus , the helmsman of Menelaus from Greek mythology.
Web links
- Lake Canopus in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lake Canopus on geographic.org (English)