Lizotte Creek
Coordinates: 77 ° 42 ′ S , 162 ° 29 ′ E
The Lizotte Creek is a 2 km long meltwater river in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Taylor Valley, it flows from the southwestern tip of the Matterhorn Glacier in a southeastern direction to the northwestern section of Lake Bonney .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1996 after the biologist Michael P. Lizotte from the University of Wisconsin , who had been studying the physiology and ecology of algae in the permanently frozen lakes of the Antarctic dry valleys since 1985 .
See also
Web links
- Lizotte Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lizotte Creek on geographic.org (English)