Ponsonby Tarn

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Ponsonby Tarn
Ponsonby Tarn - geograph.org.uk - 103914.jpg
The south end of the Ponsonby Tarn
Geographical location England , Cumbria
Tributaries Newmill Beck
Drain Newmill Beck
Data
Coordinates 54 ° 25 '35 "  N , 3 ° 28' 16"  W Coordinates: 54 ° 25 '35 "  N , 3 ° 28' 16"  W.
Ponsonby Tarn (England)
Ponsonby Tarn

The Ponsonby Tarn is a lake west of the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria , England . The Newmill Beck forms its tributary on the north side and leaves the lake on its south side. The north end is heavily silted up and overgrown with swamp plants.

Web links

Commons : Ponsonby Tarn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Image description Ponsonby Tarn from geograph.org.uk on Wikimedia Commons

literature

  • PJP Bonnett, RS Cambray, The record of deposition of radionuclides in the sediments of Ponsonby Tarn, Cumbria , in: Hydrobiologia, Volume 214, 1991 doi : 10.1007 / BF00050933