Moss Lake (Signy Island)

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Moss Lake
Geographical location Signy Island , South Orkney Islands
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Coordinates 60 ° 41 ′ 38 ″  S , 45 ° 37 ′ 23 ″  W Coordinates: 60 ° 41 ′ 38 ″  S , 45 ° 37 ′ 23 ″  W
Moss Lake (Signy Island) (South Orkney Islands)
Moss Lake (Signy Island)

The Moss Lake (English for Moossee ) is a lake on Signy Island in the archipelago of the Southern Orkney Islands . It is the southernmost of the three lakes in the Paternoster Valley in the northeast of the island.

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1974 after the abundant populations of the deciduous moss species Calliergon sarmentosum and Drepanocladus aduncus .

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