Fontus Lake

Fontus Lake
Location of lake in the South Shetland Islands
Location of lake in the South Shetland Islands
Fontus Lake
LocationLivingston Island, Antarctica
Coordinates62°39′40.4″S 61°00′19″W / 62.661222°S 61.00528°W / -62.661222; -61.00528
Lake typeGlacial lake
Max. length150 metres (490 ft)
Max. width100 metres (330 ft)
Surface area1.9 hectares (4.7 acres)
Map of Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula featuring Fontus Lake
Map of Livingston, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands

Fontus Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Фонт, romanizedezero Font, IPA: [ˈɛzɛro ˈfɔnt]) is the oval-shaped 150 m long in south-southwest to north-northeast direction and 100 m wide lake in the middle part of South Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 1.9 ha and is separated from sea by a 53 to 64 m wide strip of land.[1] The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.[2]

The feature is named after Fontus, a Roman deity of springs and streams, son of Juturna.[1]

Location

Fontus Lake is centred at 62°39′40.4″S 61°00′19″W / 62.661222°S 61.00528°W / -62.661222; -61.00528, which is 600 m northeast of Dometa Point and 740 m south of Negro Hill. 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 Fontus 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.