Lake Morning

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Lake Morning
Morning Lake
MountDiscoveryMap.jpg
Topographic map (1: 250,000) with Lake Morning (middle left)
Geographical location Victoria Land East Antarctica
Data
Coordinates 78 ° 21 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 78 ° 21 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  E
Lake Morning (Antarctica)
Lake Morning
length 3 km

The Lake Morning ( New Zealand Morning Lake called) is a 3 km long lake on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located 15 km north of Mount Morning on the eastern edge of the Koettlitz Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1963 based on the name of Mount Morning. Its namesake is the Morning , one of the two rescue ships of the British Discovery Expedition (1901–1904).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Morning Lake in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed July 12, 2017