Volturnus Lake

Volturnus Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Волтурн, romanized: ezero Volturn, IPA: [ˈɛzɛro voɫˈturn]) is the roughly triangular lake extending 225 m in north–south direction and 215 m in east–west direction on the southwest coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Its surface area is 3.15 ha.[1] The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.[2]

Volturnus Lake
Volturnus Lake
LocationLivingston Island, Antarctica
Coordinates62°40′16.4″S 60°54′48″W
Lake typeGlacial lake
Max. length225 metres (738 ft)
Max. width215 metres (705 ft)
Surface area3.15 hectares (7.8 acres)
Map of Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula
Map of Livingston, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands

The feature is named after Volturnus, a Roman deity of water and rivers.[1]

Location

Volturnus Lake is situated 140 m from the sea and centred at 62°40′16.4″S 60°54′48″W, which is 965 m east of Rish Point, 440 m south of Clark Nunatak and 1.4 km northwest of Amadok 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. Volturnus 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.


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