Six Foot Lake
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| Map of Campbell Island with Six Foot Lake to the south | ||
| Geographical location | Campbell Island , South Pacific Ocean , New Zealand | |
| Tributaries | Kirk Stream | |
| Drain | 100 m long bottleneck to Monument Harbor | |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 35 ′ 19 ″ S , 169 ° 8 ′ 52 ″ E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 1 m | |
| length | 940 m | |
| width | 500 m | |
| scope | 2.8 km | |
| Maximum depth | 1.9 m | |
The Six Foot Lake is a small lake on the sub-Antarctic island Campbell Iceland , one to New Zealand belonging offshore Iceland . The Six Foot Lake is the only lake on the island.
geography
The Six Foot Lake is located in the south of Campbell Iceland between the peaks of Eboulé Peak ( 326 m ) to the southwest, the Puiseux Peak ( 416 m ) to the southeast, the Filhol Peak ( 287 m ) in the north-west and the Mount Honey ( 558 m ) in the Northeast. The 940 m long and up to 500 m wide lake is fed by the 3.2 km long Kirk Stream , which rises on the southeast flank of the 500 m high Mount Durmas . The Six Foot Lake drains through an approximately 100 m long and narrowing to 4 m bottleneck that separates the lake from the adjacent Monument Harbor to the south .
Flora and fauna
The Department of Conservation (DOC) was of the lake small populations of in 2006 on the water supply and the water drain Campbell-snipe (Coenocorypha aucklandica perseverance), the New Zealand Campbell Iceland Snipe are called. The animals were originally discovered in 1997 on the adjoining island of Jacquemart Island to the south and could not survive on Campbell Island because the rats brought in by Europeans destroyed their brood. After the rats were exterminated in 2010, the birds returned to the main island.
literature
- Gordon S. Maxwell : Subantarctic Campbell Island . In: Tane . Vol. 16 , 1970, pp. 5–19 (English, online [PDF; 3.4 MB ; accessed on June 12, 2018]).
- Colin M. Miskelly : Campbell Island snipe (Coenocorypha undescribed sp.) Recovery following rat eradication . Department of Conservation , Wellington July 1, 2006 (English, Online [PDF; 485 kB ; accessed on June 12, 2018]).
- Deanne Drake, David Kelly, Marc Schallenberg, Agate Ponder-Sutton, Matt Enright : Shallow coastal lakes in New Zealand . assessing indicators of ecological integrity and their relationships to broad-scale human pressures . NIWA , Christchurch October 2009 (English, Online [PDF; 615 kB ; accessed on June 12, 2018]).
Web links
- Campbell Island . (JPG 4.0 MB)Land Information New Zealand,accessed on June 11, 2018(English, detailed topographic map ofCampbell Islandwith its small neighboring islands and rocky islands).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Coordinates and longitudes were determined using Goggle Earth Pro Version 7.3.1.4507 on June 12, 2018
- ^ Drake, Kelly, Schallenberg, Ponder-Sutton, Enright : Shallow coastal lakes in New Zealand . 2009, p. 45 .
- ↑ a b c Campbell Island . (JPG 4.0 MB) Land Information New Zealand , accessed on June 12, 2018 (English, detailed topographic map of Campbell Island with its small neighboring island and rocky islands).
- ^ Miskelly : Campbell Island snipe (Coenocorypha undescribed sp.) Recovery following rat eradication . 2006.