Pelecanoides Lakes
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| Geographical location | South Georgia | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 22 ′ 19 ″ S , 36 ° 18 ′ 5 ″ W | |
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The Pelecanoides Lakes are a complex of interconnected lakes on South Georgia in the South Atlantic . They lie on a 150 m high saddle near the base of the Barff Peninsula between Sörling Beach on Cumberland East Bay and Hound Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 2015 after the large number of broad-billed guillemot petrels ( Pelecanoides georgicus ) that have their breeding burrows in this area.
Web links
- Pelecanoides Lakes . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)