Lake Kitezh
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Lake Kitezh озеро Китеж |
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| Geographical location | Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Drain | Station Creek → Ardley Cove | |
| Location close to the shore | Bellingshausen Station , Villa Las Estrellas | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 11 '37 " S , 58 ° 57' 55" W | |
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| length | 500 m (0.3 miles ) | |
The Lake Kitezh ( Russian озеро Китеж , Ozero Kitezh ) is a lake on King George Iceland , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . At almost 500 meters (0.3 miles ) in length , it is the largest lake on the Fildes Peninsula and is located northwest of Ardley Cove . It was used as a water reservoir by the Soviet Bellingshausen station, located 500 meters south-east, and by the Chilean Rodolfo Marsh station (now again Base Eduardo Frei ).
The lake was named озеро Китеж on a map of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition on a map from 1973 - after the legendary submerged Russian city of Kitesh - and Lake Kitezh on an English-language map by the same authors . The British Antarctic Place-names Committee (APC) adopted this name in 1980.
Station Creek ( Russian ручей Станционный , because of its proximity to Bellingshausen Station) flows from the lake into Ardley Cove.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Lake Kitezh in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed August 17, 2017
- ↑ a b c Kitezh, Lake (GBR) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed August 17, 2017
Web links
- Dietrich Barsch, Wolf-Dieter Blümel, Wolfgang-Albert Flügel, Roland Mäusbacher, Gerhard Stäblein and Wolfgang Zick: Investigations on the periglacial on the König-Georg-Insel, South Shetland Islands / Antarctica. German physiogeographic research in the Antarctic. Report on the 1983/84 campaign. Polar Research Reports No. 24, November 1985; Map of the Fildes Peninsula on p. 14, labeled “Kiteschsee” there.
- Kitezh, Lake on geographic.org (English)