Lake teardrop
| Lake teardrop | ||
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| Geographical location | Denton Hills , Victoria Land East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Lake Teardrop is a small Glacial Lake in Denton Hills on the Scott Coast in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies in the southeast face of the Hidden Valley .
Participants in a 1960 to 1961 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions visited it in December 1961 and named it descriptively after its shape, which is reminiscent of a tear .
Web links
- Lake Teardrop in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)