Pony Lake

Pony Lake
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Geographical location	Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica )
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Coordinates	77 ° 33 ′ 13 ″  S , 166 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 77 ° 33 ′ 13 ″  S , 166 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  E
particularities	permanently frozen over

The Pony Lake ( English for Pony Lake ) is one of the many frozen small freshwater lakes on the Antarctic Ross Island . The lake is just north of Flagstaff Point on Cape Royds .

He was discovered and mapped by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It got its name because the ponies brought along on the expedition were temporarily kept here.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Pony Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Pony Lake on geographic.org (English)