Acheron Lake

Acheron Lake
Location of lake in the South Shetland Islands
Location of lake in the South Shetland Islands
Acheron Lake
LocationLivingston Island, Antarctica
Coordinates62°39′44″S 61°09′04″W / 62.66222°S 61.15111°W / -62.66222; -61.15111
Lake typeGlacial lake
Max. length315 metres (1,033 ft)
Max. width186 metres (610 ft)
Surface area4.4 hectares (11 acres)
Map of Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula featuring Acheron Lake
Map of Livingston, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands

Acheron Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Ахерон, romanized: ezero Aheron, IPA: [ˈɛzɛro ɐxɛˈrɔn]) is the B-shaped 315 m long in southwest-northeast direction and 186 m wide lake on President Beaches, Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 4.4 ha, and is separated from Osogovo Bay waters by a 10 to 25 m wide strip of land. Lucifer Crags surmount the lake on the southwest.[1] The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.[2]

The feature is named after Acheron River in Greek underworld.[1]

Location

Acheron Lake is centred at 62°39′44″S 61°09′04″W / 62.66222°S 61.15111°W / -62.66222; -61.15111, which is 1 km south of Point Smellie, 1 km west-northwest of Wasp Hill and 1.9 km northeast of Devils Point.1.4 km north-northeast of Point Smellie. Detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2017.

Maps

  • 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

Notes

  1. ^ a b Acheron Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
  2. ^ L. Ivanov. General Geography and History of Livingston Island. In: Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28.

References


This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.