Stepping Stone Pond
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| Geographical location | Wright Valley , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Stepping Stone Pond (English for stepping stone pool ) is a small and frozen freshwater pool in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Wright Valley , it is 600 m east-northeast of Craig Pond in the Labyrinth plain .
Scientists from the United States Antarctic Program who explored it between 2003 and 2004 gave it its descriptive name. It is named after a series of naturally arranged stepping stones , over which the lake is easy to cross.
Web links
- Stepping Stone Pond in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stepping Stone Pond on geographic.org (English)