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Stinear Lake

Coordinates: 68°34′S 78°8′E / 68.567°S 78.133°E / -68.567; 78.133
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Stinear Lake
Location of the lake in Antarctica.
Location of the lake in Antarctica.
Stinear Lake
LocationBreidnes Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica
Coordinates68°34′S 78°8′E / 68.567°S 78.133°E / -68.567; 78.133
Typesalt lakeglacial lake
Max. length2.8 kilometres; 1.7 miles (1.5 nmi)
Max. width0.46 kilometres; 0.29 miles (0.25 nmi)
Salinityyes
Frozenno

Stinear Lake is an Antarctic salt-water glacial lake.

The lake is 2.8 kilometres; 1.7 miles (1.5 nmi) long and 0.46 kilometres; 0.29 miles (0.25 nmi) wide, lying immediately east of Dingle Lake on Breidnes Peninsula, Vestfold Hills of Princess Elizabeth Land in Antarctica.[1]

It was mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in 1946–47. It was first visited by an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, led by Philip Law, in 1955.[2] It was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for Bruce H. Stinear (1913-2003), a New Zealand geologist at Davis and Mawson Station for several seasons in the period 1954–59.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ United States Board on Geographic Names, United States; Defense Mapping Agency, Geological Survey (U.S.). National Mapping Division (1995). Alberts, Fred G. (ed.). Geographic Names of the Antarctic. National Science Foundation. p. 714.
  2. ^ "Gazetteer - AADC".
  3. ^ "Open Research: Bruce Stinear photographs".
  4. ^ "Stinear, Bruce H - Archives".

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