Hoaresee
Hoaresee | ||
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View of Lake Chad and Lake Hoare from the Suess Glacier | ||
Geographical location | Taylor Valley , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Tributaries | Andersen Creek, overflow of Lake Chad | |
Drain | none | |
Islands | some (approx. 16) | |
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Coordinates | 77 ° 38 '55 " S , 162 ° 51' 0" E | |
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Altitude above sea level | 73 m | |
surface | 1.94 km² | |
length | 4.2 km | |
width | 1 km | |
volume | 17,500,000 m³ | |
Maximum depth | 34 m | |
Middle deep | 9 m |
The Hoaresee ( English Lake Hoare ) is an approximately three and a half kilometers long and 1.94 km² large lake in Victoria Land in Antarctica . It is located in the Taylor Valley between Lake Chad and the Canada Glacier , which dams it. The lake is covered with ice all year round, the thickness of which is about four meters on average.
Participants in a campaign carried out by Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions from 1963 to 1964 named him after the physicist Raymond A. Hoare. He had been a member of several expeditions at Victoria University, which had explored the lakes in the Taylor, Wright and Victoria valleys.
Web links
- Pictures of the Hoare lake
- RA Wharton, GM Simmons, CP McKay: Perennially ice-covered Lake Hoare, Antarctica: physical environment, biology and sedimentation. In: Hydrobiologia. Volume 172, 1989, pp. 305-320, ISSN 0018-8158 . PMID 11538340 .