Lake Island (Antarctica)
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| Waters | Prydz Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 33 ′ S , 77 ° 59 ′ E | |
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Lake Island (from English lake 'See' ) is a small island off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . In the Vestfold Mountains immediately west of the Breidnes Peninsula in Prydz Bay , it lies between Plogøy and Flutter Island .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . Scientists from a 1957-1958 campaign as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions mapped it again and named it after the lake in the northern part of the island.
Web links
- Lake Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lake Island on geographic.org (English)