Watanuki Pond
| Watanuki Pond | ||
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| Geographical location | Wright Valley , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Watanuki Pond is a pond in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Wright Valley , it is 2.7 km south-southwest of Apollo Peak , 350 m east-northeast of Kurasawa Pond and 1.3 km east of the end of the Upper Wright Glacier in the northwest part of the Labyrinth plain .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2004 after Kunihiki Watanuki from the University of Tokyo , who was involved in the drilling project in the Antarctic Dry Valleys from 1973 to 1974 and in investigations of the ponds in the labyrinth from 1985 to 1986.
Web links
- Watanuki Pond in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Watanuki Pond on geographic.org (English)