Lake Vida
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| Geographical location | Victoria Valley , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Lake Vida is a lake in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Victoria Valley , it is north of Mount Cerberus .
Participants in a 1958-1959 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions (1958-1959) named him after Vida (or Vaida ), one of the sled dogs of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Lake Vida in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lake Vida on geographic.org (English)