Oread Lake
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Location | Livingston Island, Antarctica |
Coordinates | 62°38′47″S 60°58′27″W / 62.64639°S 60.97417°W |
Lake type | Glacial lake |
Primary outflows | Bedek Stream |
Max. length | 220 metres (720 ft) |
Max. width | 130 metres (430 ft) |
Surface area | 1.94 hectares (4.8 acres) |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Byers_Peninsula%2C_eastern_part.jpg/220px-Byers_Peninsula%2C_eastern_part.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/ASPA-126-Byers-Peninsula.png/220px-ASPA-126-Byers-Peninsula.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg/220px-Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg)
Oread Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Ореада, romanized: ezero Oreada, IPA: [ˈɛzɛro ˈorɛˈadɐ]) is the oval-shaped 220 m long in southeast–northwest direction and 130 m wide lake on eastern Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 1.94 ha and drains northwards into Barclay Bay by way of Bedek Stream.[1]
The feature is named after the Oreads, mountain nymphs of Greek mythology.[1]
Location
[edit]Oread Lake is situated in the west foothills of Urvich Wall and centred at 62°38′47″S 60°58′27″W / 62.64639°S 60.97417°W, which is 2.77 km northeast of Dometa Point and 3.4 km south of Nedelya Point.3.15 km south-southeast of Lair Point, 1.75 m south-southwest of Sparadok Point and 500 m west-southwest of Tsamblak Hill. Detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2017.
Maps
[edit]- Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992
- L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
- L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Oread Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
References
[edit]- Oread Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 126 Byers Peninsula. Measure 4 (2016), ATCM XXXIX Final Report. Santiago, 2016
External links
[edit]- Oread Lake. Adjusted Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.