Penny Lake
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| Geographical location | Royal Society Range , Victoria Land , Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Penny Lake (English for Pfennigsee ) is a small and circular lake in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies sunk in a moraine near the entrance to the Roaring Valley just south of the Walcott Glacier .
The lake got its descriptive name, based on its shape, from participants in a campaign of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions from 1960 to 1961 , who set up camp here.
Web links
- Penny Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Penny Lake on geographic.org (English)