Pumphouse Lake
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| Geographical location | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 42 ′ 4 ″ S , 45 ° 36 ′ 50 ″ W | |
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The Pumphouse Lake ( English for pump house lake ) is the southernmost of the three lakes in the Three Lakes Valley of Signy Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands .
The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys in 1973. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the lake in 1974 after a pump house for fresh water supply built by whalers on the east bank and now abandoned .
Web links
- Pumphouse Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pumphouse Lake on geographic.org (English)