Moutonnée Lake
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| Geographical location | Alexander I Island , Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 51 ′ 59 ″ S , 68 ° 20 ′ 1 ″ W | |
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The moutonnée Lake is a lake on the east coast of the West Antarctic Alexander Island . It is 6 km south of Ablation Point in the Moutonnée Valley on the edge of the George VI Sound, which is covered with ice shelves .
The lake was named in 1971 in the course of limnological investigations by the British Antarctic Survey . It is named after the round hump rock ( French Roches moutonnées ) on its banks.
Web links
- Moutonnée Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Moutonnée Lake on geographic.org (English)