Lake Joyce
| Lake Joyce | ||
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| Geographical location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Drain | Taylor Glacier → Bonney Lake | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 77 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 800 m | |
| Maximum depth | 43 m | |
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particularities |
permanently frozen over |
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Lake Joyce is a lake in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Pearse Valley , it is on the northern flank of the Taylor Glacier . The lake is 800 m long, up to 43 m deep and covered by a layer of ice that is more than 6.5 m thick.
Participants in a campaign in New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions that lasted from 1963 to 1964 explored it and named it after the British polar explorer Ernest Joyce (1875–1940), participant of the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904), the Nimrod Expedition (1907) –1909) and the Ross Sea Party on the Endurance Expedition (1914–1917).
Web links
- Lake Joyce in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lake Joyce on geographic.org (English)