Radok Lake

Radok Lake is a meltwater lake about 4 miles long and marked by a slender glacier tongue feeding into it from the west, lying 3 miles south-west of Beaver Lake and 15 miles south-east of the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) from air photos taken by the RAAF Antarctic Flight in 1956. Named for Uwe Radok, Reader (head) of Meteorology Dept at the University of Melbourne, who greatly assisted Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE)'s glaciological program.[1] Radok Lake is the deepest (362 m)[2] known lake on the Antarctic continent and the only known freshwater lake to host a floating ice tongue glacier.[3] Drained by 3 miles long Pagodroma Gorge in to Beaver Lake.

References

  1. ↑ "Radok Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
  2. ↑ The Expeditions Amery Oasis, East Antarctica, in 2001/02 and Taylor Valley, Southern Victoria Land, in 2002 Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ The Amery Oasis, Northern Prince Charles Mountains

Coordinates: 70°52′S 68°00′E / 70.867°S 68.000°E / -70.867; 68.000


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