Stinear Lake is an Antarctic salt-water glacial lake.
| Stinear Lake | |
|---|---|
  Stinear Lake | |
| Location | Breidnes Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica |
| Coordinates | 68°34′S 78°8′E / 68.567°S 78.133°E |
| Type | salt lakeglacial lake |
| Max. length | 2.8 kilometres; 1.7 miles (1.5 nmi) |
| Max. width | 0.46 kilometres; 0.29 miles (0.25 nmi) |
| Salinity | yes |
| Frozen | no |
The lake is 2.8 kilometres; 1.7 miles (1.5 nmi) long and 0.46 kilometres; 0.29 miles (0.25 nmi) wide, lying immediately east of Dingle Lake on Breidnes Peninsula, Vestfold Hills of Princess Elizabeth Land in Antarctica.[1]
It was mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in 1946–47. It was first visited by an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, led by Philip Law, in 1955.[2] It was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for Bruce H. Stinear (1913-2003), a New Zealand geologist at Davis and Mawson Station for several seasons in the period 1954–59.[3][4]
References edit
- ^ United States Board on Geographic Names, United States; Defense Mapping Agency, Geological Survey (U.S.). National Mapping Division (1995). Alberts, Fred G. (ed.). Geographic Names of the Antarctic. National Science Foundation. p. 714.
- ^ "Gazetteer - AADC".
- ^ "Open Research: Bruce Stinear photographs".
- ^ "Stinear, Bruce H - Archives".
This article incorporates public domain material from "Stinear Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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