Ward Lake
| Ward Lake | ||
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| Ward Lake to the northwest of the map sheet | ||
| Geographical location | Royal Society Range , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Tributaries | Ward Stream from Ward Glacier | |
| Drain | Ward Stream to the Alph River | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| surface | 49 hectares | |
| length | 870 m | |
| width | 830 m | |
The Ward Lake is a small lake at the bottom of Ward Glacier on the east side of the Royal Society Range in the East Antarctic Victoria Land .
Participants of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott named it after the Australian geologist Leonard Keith Ward (1879-1964), based on the naming of the glacier of the same name .
Web links
- Ward Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ward Lake on geographic.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonard Keith Ward. Entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography (accessed February 15, 2016).