Sarcophagus Pond
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| Geographical location | Wright Valley , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Sarcophagus Pond (English for sarcophagus pool ) is a frozen freshwater pool in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Wright Valley , it is 250 m east-northeast of Dauphin Pond in the Labyrinth plain .
Scientists from the United States Antarctic Program who explored it between 2003 and 2004 gave it its descriptive name. It is named after a rock in the middle of the pool in the shape of a sarcophagus .
Web links
- Sarcophagus Pond in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sarcophagus Pond on geographic.org (English)