Lake Vashka
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| Geographical location | Barwick Valley , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Lake Vashka is a lake in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It is located in the center of the Barwick Valley at a distance of 4 miles east of the Webb Glacier .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1958 to 1959 as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions named the lake after a sled dog of the same name from the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Lake Vashka in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lake Vashka on geographic.org (English)