Starr Lake
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| Geographical location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Starr Lake is a small meltwater on the Antarctic Ross Island . It is halfway between First Crater and Crater Hill on the Hut Point Peninsula .
The lake got its name in the 1970s. It is named after the steelworker James W. Starr of the United States Navy , who developed the lake as a freshwater source for the McMurdo station, 800 m to the north .
Web links
- Starr Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Starr Lake on geographic.org (English)