Montemno Lake

Montemno Lake
Location of lake in the South Shetland Islands
Location of lake in the South Shetland Islands
Montemno Lake
LocationLivingston Island, Antarctica
Coordinates62°38′41″S 60°58′17″W / 62.64472°S 60.97139°W / -62.64472; -60.97139
Lake typeGlacial lake
Primary outflowsBedek Stream
Max. length190 metres (620 ft)
Max. width70 metres (230 ft)
Surface area0.96 hectares (2.4 acres)
Eastern Byers Peninsula in Livingston Island with Robbery Beaches and Tsamblak Hill in the middle, and left to right Rowe Point, Ivanov Beach, Urvich Wall and Clark Nunatak in the background
Map of Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula
Map of Livingston, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands

Montemno Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Монтемно, romanized: ezero Montemno, IPA: [ˈɛzɛro monˈtɛmno]) is the 190 m long in southeast–northwest direction and 70 m wide lake on eastern Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 0.96 ha and drains northwards into Barclay Bay by way of Bedek Stream.[1]

The feature is named after the ancient Roman road station of Montemno in Northern Bulgaria.[1]

Location

Montemno Lake is situated just west of Urvich Wall and centred at 62°38′41″S 60°58′17″W / 62.64472°S 60.97139°W / -62.64472; -60.97139, which is 230 m northeast of the larger Oread Lake, 3 km northeast of Dometa Point and 3.25 km south of Nedelya Point. Detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping of the area 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 Montemno Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References

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


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