Umbrella ponds
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| Geographical location | Schirmacher Oasis , Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Schirmacher Ponds are a scattered group of meltwater pools on the Princess Astrid Coast of Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . They are 60 km north of the Alexander von Humboldt Mountains in the Schirmacher Oasis .
Participants in the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher discovered it. Ritscher named the entire area after his pilot Richardheinrich Schirmacher (1909 - unknown) as the Schirmacher Lake District . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names subdivided the property in 1966 into the Schirmacher Oase ( English Schirmacher Hills ) and the pools described here.
Web links
- Schirmacher Ponds in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Schirmacher Ponds on geographic.org (English)