Winston Lagoon
| Winston Lagoon | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Land mass | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 73 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Islands | Nursery Island | |
| Tributaries | Winston Glacier | |
The Winston Lagoon is a lagoon in the southeast of Heard Island . It is located around 1.5 km northeast of Cape Lockyer . The Winston Glacier flows into it .
It appears for the first time, roughly sketched, on a nautical chart of American seal hunters from the 1860s. Lieutenant Malcom Smith of the Royal Australian Air Force flew over it on a reconnaissance flight in a seaplane in 1948 . Smith thought it was a lake , which he named Lake Winston after his wife's maiden name. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia fit after Smith's death in a plane crash shortly after his flyover that designation to the real circumstances of.
Web links
- Winston Lagoon in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Winston Lagoon on geographic.org (English)