Stinear Lake
| Stinear Lake | ||
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| View from the north of the lake and the Vestfold Mountains | ||
| Geographical location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 78 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
| width | 400 m | |
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The Stinear Lake is a 2.5 km long and 400 m wide salt water lake on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . In the Vestfold Mountains it is located on the Breidnes Peninsula immediately east of Dingle Lake .
Aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947) were used to map it. Participants of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions visited it for the first time in 1955. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the lake after the New Zealand geologist Bruce Harry Stinear (1913-2003), who between 1954 and 1959 in several campaigns on the Davis -Station and Mawson station was active.
Web links
- Stinear Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stinear Lake on geographic.org (English)