Dead Pond
| Dead Pond | ||
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| Geographical location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Tributaries | Overflow from Rum Pond | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Tot Pond (English for Schlückchentümpel ) is a pond in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is the smaller and more westerly of two frozen ponds in the valley floor of the Alatna Valley in the Convoy Range . It is fed by the overflow from the neighboring Rum Pond .
The pond is one of a number of geographic features in the Convoy Range whose names are related to seafaring . "Dead" is the usual term in English-speaking sailor jargon for a small amount of rum . The designation was made by a team from the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program , who worked in this area between 1989 and 1990.
Web links
- Tot Pond in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tot Pond on geographic.org (English)