Lake Pewé
| Lake Pewé | ||
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| Geographical location | Victoria Land East Antarctica | |
| Drain | → Salmon Stream → Salmon Bay | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 550 m | |
The Lake PeWe is a 550 m high altitude lake on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located 800 m east of the Blackwelder Glacier in the Denton Hills above the Koettlitz Glacier .
The naming was made by participants of a campaign carried out from 1960 to 1961 as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions . It is named after the American glaciologist Troy L. PeWe (1918-1999) from the University of Alaska , who had worked in this area from 1958 to 1959, while a note found by New Zealanders about it discovered at this lake boulders had left .
Web links
- Lake Péwé in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lake Péwé on geographic.org (English)