Zapadnoye Lake
| Zapadnoye Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 800 m | |
The Zapadnoye Lake ( Russian Озеро Западное Osero Sapadnoje , German 'Western Lake' ) is an 800 m long lake on the Princess Astrid coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is located at the western end of the Schirmacher Oasis .
Participants in a Soviet Antarctic expedition mapped it in 1961 and named it after its relative geographic location. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this designation into English in 1970.
Web links
- Zapadnoye Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Zapadnoye Lake on geographic.org (English)