Lake Fletcher
| Lake Fletcher | ||
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| Geographical location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 27 ′ 6 ″ S , 78 ° 15 ′ 25 ″ E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 0.2 m | |
The Lake Fletcher is a hypersaline and meromektischer saltwater lake on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth country . It is located in the Vestfold Mountains and has a connection to the open sea.
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it on July 26, 1983 after Lloyd Fletscher, a physician at Davis Station in 1978, who was also involved in sampling the lakes in the Vestfold Mountains that year.
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 563 (English)
Web links
- Lake Fletcher in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)