Lake Porkchop
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| Geographical location | Royal Society Range , Victoria Land , Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Lake Porkchop (English for pork chop lake ) is a lake in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range , it is near the middle of the Roaring Valley .
The lake got its descriptive name, based on its shape, from participants in a campaign by New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions from 1960 to 1961 .
Web links
- Lake Porkchop in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lake Porkchop on geographic.org (English)