Lake King
| Lake King | ||
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| Geographical location | South Georgia | |
| Tributaries | King Glacier | |
| Drain | King River | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 9 '58 " S , 36 ° 47' 24" W | |
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The Lake King is a lake on South Georgia in the South Atlantic . In the bosom region, it lies at the head of Fortuna Bay . It is fed by the melt water from the König glacier . Its overflow, the König River , flows into Fortuna Bay.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2013 based on the name of the glacier of the same name. Its namesake is the Austrian mountaineer Felix König (1880-1945), participant in the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911-1912) under the direction of Wilhelm Filchner .
Web links
- Lake King . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)