Nereid Lake
| Nereid Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Greenwich Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 26 '37 " S , 59 ° 47' 41" W | |
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| surface | 3.8 ha | |
| length | 450 m | |
| width | 90 m | |
The Nereid Lake ( English ; Bulgarian езеро Нереида esero Nereida ) is a roughly trapezoidal, in a west-southwest-east-northeast orientation 450 m long, 90 m wide and 3.8 hectares large lake on Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located immediately west of Agüedo Point and 800 m east-southeast of Brusen Point in the eastern section of Flamingo Beach . It is separated from the Orión Passage by a strip of land 20 to 40 m wide.
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2020 after the Nereids , nymphs from Greek mythology .
Web links
- Nereid Lake in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)