Lake Wilson
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| Geographical location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Lake Wilson is an icy lake at the Hillary Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located 8 km northeast of Diamond Hill, immediately north of the mouth of the Darwin Glacier in the Ross Ice Shelf .
Scientists in a campaign run by New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions from 1962 to 1963 named it after Alexander Thomas Wilson (* 1930) of the Victoria University of Wellington , who explored the Antarctic dry valleys west of McMurdo Sound .
Web links
- Lake Wilson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lake Wilson on geographic.org (English)