Lake Priyadarshini

Lake Priyadarshini
Lake Priyadarshini
	Lake Priyadarshini
Location	Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica
Coordinates	70°45′47″S 11°44′20″E / 70.763°S 11.739°E
Basin countries	(Antarctica)
Frozen	March–February
Settlements	Maitri

Lake Priyadarshini is a freshwater lake in the Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica. It supplies water for Maitri, India's second permanent station in Antarctica.^[1] Lake Priyadarshini was named after the then Prime Minister of India Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi.

Sanskrit priyadarshinī प्रियदर्शिनी is the feminine form of priyadarshina प्रियदर्शिन, meaning "looking with kindness upon everything".

References edit

^ Ingole, Baban; Vinod Dhargalkar (25 March 1998). "Ecobiological assessment of a freshwater lake at Schirmacher Oasis with reference to human activities". Current Science. 74 (6): 529–534. Retrieved 2009-04-25.

External links edit

Thermal Structure, Sedimentology, and Hydro-geochemistry of Lake Priyadarshini, Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica^{[permanent dead link]}, by R. Sinha and Asim Chatterjee

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[1] Ingole, Baban; Vinod Dhargalkar (25 March 1998). "Ecobiological assessment of a freshwater lake at Schirmacher Oasis with reference to human activities". Current Science. 74 (6): 529–534. Retrieved 2009-04-25.

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