Mud Lake (King George Island)
| Mud Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands , Antarctica | |
| Drain | to Bransfieldstrasse | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 13 '11 " S , 58 ° 27' 18" W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 85 m | |
The Mud Lake ( English , Polish Jeziorko Błotniste , 'mud lake ' ) is a muddy lake on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located on the Creeping Slope east of Bastion Hill at Sentry Cove . The lake was created by the increasing glacier retreat since the 1980s.
Polish scholars named it descriptively.
Web links
- Mud Lake in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)