Upper Hamberg Lake
| Upper Hamberg Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | South Georgia | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 20 ′ 10 ″ S , 36 ° 32 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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| length | 1 km | |
| width | 600 m | |
The Upper Hamberg Lake is the southernmost and how his English name suggests, the highest of Hamberg Lakes to South Georgia in the South Atlantic . The lake is oval, around 1 km long and 600 m wide. He is prior to the end of Hamberg Glacier and southeast of Glacier Col . The lake was created by the glacier retreat and was discovered on Landsat recordings in 2002 .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2004. It is named after the Swedish geographer, mineralogist and Arctic explorer Axel Hamberg (1863–1933).
Web links
- Upper Hamberg Lake . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)