Sunk Lake

Sunk Lake
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Geographical location	Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica )
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Coordinates	77 ° 34 '26 "  S , 166 ° 14' 44"  O Coordinates: 77 ° 34 '26 "  S , 166 ° 14' 44"  O
particularities	permanently frozen over

The Sunk Lake ( English for Sunken Lake ) is one of the numerous frozen small freshwater lakes on the Antarctic Ross Island . The lake is located between the Deep Lake and the coast at Cape Royds .

Participants in the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered and mapped it. The lake owes its name to the fact that its water level is around 4.5 meters below sea level.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Sunk Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Sunk Lake on geographic.org (English)