Tioga Lake

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Tioga Lake
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Geographical location Signy Island , South Orkney Islands
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Coordinates 60 ° 42 ′ 29 "  S , 45 ° 39 ′ 25"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 42 ′ 29 "  S , 45 ° 39 ′ 25"  W
Tioga Lake (South Orkney Islands)
Tioga Lake

The Tioga Lake is a small lake on Signy Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is north-northeast of Port Jebsen and northwest of Tioga Hill .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1981 based on the name of the hill of the same name. Its namesake is the Norwegian factory ship Tioga , built in 1890 , which operated for whaling in the waters around the southern Orkney Islands between 1911 and 1912 and which sank in a storm near Port Jebsen on February 4, 1913 .

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