Lake Chapman
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| Geographical location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Lake Chapman is a lake in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located on The Flatiron headland at the head of Granite Harbor .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the lake on August 14, 2002 after the New Zealand limnologist Margaret Ann Chapman (* 1937) from the University of Waikato , who was the first woman to lead a scientific expedition to Antarctica from 1970 to 1971.
Web links
- Lake Chapman in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lake Chapman on geographic.org (English)