Lake Miers
| Lake Miers | ||
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| The Miers Valley with the frozen Lake Miers | ||
| Geographical location | Miers Valley , Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains , Victoria Land , Antarctica | |
| Tributaries | Adams Glacier , Miers Glacier | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Lake Miers is a small lake in Miers Valley in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located around 1.5 km east of the lower sections of the Adams Glacier and the Miers Glacier , from whose meltwater it is fed.
It was named in connection with the Miers Glacier in 1957 by the New Zealand team who examined the Blue Glacier on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) .
Web links
- Lake Miers in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lake Miers on geographic.org (English)