Nostoc Lake
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| Geographical location | Shackleton Range , Coatsland , Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 24 ′ 2 ″ S , 30 ° 4 ′ 12 ″ W | |
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The Nostoc Lake is a lake in East Antarctic Coats Land . It is located about 1.5 km southwest of Mount Provender in the western part of the Shackleton Range .
It was mapped in 1957 by participants in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–1958) under the direction of British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs . It is named after the cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc that colonize the lake.
Web links
- Nostoc Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nostoc Lake on geographic.org (English)