Simmons Lake
| Simmons Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Simmons Basin , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
The Simmons Lake is a 2.5 km long lake in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located in the eastern part of the Simmons Basin .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1992, together with the basin, after the American biologist George M. Simmons Jr. of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , who from 1977 onwards for over ten years teams of the United States Antarctic Research Program in studies Bonneysee , Fryxellsee , Hoaresee , Vandasee and other lakes in the Antarctic dry valleys .
Web links
- Simmons Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Simmons Lake on geographic.org (English)