Lake Cowan
| Lake Cowan | ||
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| Geographical location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 78 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Lake Cowan is in its supervisory a seal reminiscent lake on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth country . It is located 800 m south of Lake Vereteno in the eastern part of the Vestfold Mountains .
The lake was explored from 1957 by teams of several campaigns as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named him on May 18, 1971 after Dave Cowan, a weather observer at Davis Station in 1969, who was on one of these teams in March of that year.
Web links
- Lake Cowan in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lake Cowan on geographic.org (English)