Rum Pond
| Rum Pond | ||
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| Geographical location | Convoy Range , Victoria Land , Antarctica | |
| Drain | Overflow to Tot Pond | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Rum Pond (English for Rumtümpel ) is a pond in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is the larger and more easterly of two frozen pools in the valley floor of the Alatna Valley in the Convoy Range .
The pond is one of a number of geographic features in the Convoy Range whose names are related to seafaring . Rum was one of the traditional beverages used by seafarers and also in the supply of a team from the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program who worked in the area between 1989 and 1990 and made the name.
Web links
- Rum Pond in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rum Pond on geographic.org (English)