Slalom Lake
| Slalom Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands , Antarctica | |
| Drain | to Ardley Cove | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 11 '33 " S , 58 ° 57' 3" W | |
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The Slalom Lake ( Russian Озеро Слаломное Osero Slalomnoje , German ' Slalomsee ' ) is a small lake on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 400 m north of Ardley Cove on the Fildes Peninsula .
The lake is located near the Bellingshausen station , which was built in 1968 and whose scientists gave it the name. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated the Russian name into English in 1978.
Web links
- Slalom Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Slalom Lake on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Dietrich Barsch, Wolf-Dieter Blümel, Wolfgang-Albert Flügel, Roland Mäusbacher, Gerhard Stäblein and Wolfgang Zick: Investigations on the periglacial on the König-Georg-Insel, South Shetland Islands / Antarctica. German physiogeographic research in the Antarctic. Report on the 1983/84 campaign. Polar Research Reports No. 24, November 1985, map on p. 14. Retrieved July 24, 2018