Lake Hoare
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Lake Hoare is a lake
about 4.2 kilometres (2.6 mi) long between Lake Chad
and Canada Glacier
in Taylor Valley
, Victoria Land
. Its surface area measures 1.94 square kilometre. It was named by the 8th Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1963–64, for physicist R.A. Hoare, a member of VUWAE that examined lakes in Taylor, Wright, and Victoria Valleys.
Lake Hoare is dammed by the tongue of Canada Glacier, otherwise it would drain into Lake Fryxell
, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) northeast across the glacier tongue. Lake Chad
, only 5 metres (16.4 ft) southeast of Lake Hoare, sometimes overflows into Lake Hoare.
Lake
A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...
about 4.2 kilometres (2.6 mi) long between Lake Chad
Lake Chad (Antarctica)
Lake Chad is a small lake lying east of the mouth of Suess Glacier in the Taylor Valley of Victoria Land. It was charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, under Robert Falcon Scott, and named by them after the Lake Chad in Africa....
and Canada Glacier
Canada Glacier
The Canada Glacier is a small polar glacier flowing southeast into the northern side of Taylor Valley, Victoria Land in Antarctica.- Geographical features :Canada Glacier's seasonal melting feeds Lake Fryxell to the West and Lake Hoare to the East....
in Taylor Valley
Taylor Valley
Taylor Valley is the southern one of the three large Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains, Victoria Land, located west of McMurdo Sound at approximately . The valley extends from Taylor Glacier in the west to McMurdo Sound at Explorers Cove at the northwest head of New Harbour in the east...
, Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. Its surface area measures 1.94 square kilometre. It was named by the 8th Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1963–64, for physicist R.A. Hoare, a member of VUWAE that examined lakes in Taylor, Wright, and Victoria Valleys.
Lake Hoare is dammed by the tongue of Canada Glacier, otherwise it would drain into Lake Fryxell
Lake Fryxell
Lake Fryxell is a lake long, between Canada Glacier and Commonwealth Glaciers at the lower end of Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott, 1910-13, the lake was visited by Professor T.L. Péwé during USN Operation Deep Freeze,...
, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) northeast across the glacier tongue. Lake Chad
Lake Chad (Antarctica)
Lake Chad is a small lake lying east of the mouth of Suess Glacier in the Taylor Valley of Victoria Land. It was charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, under Robert Falcon Scott, and named by them after the Lake Chad in Africa....
, only 5 metres (16.4 ft) southeast of Lake Hoare, sometimes overflows into Lake Hoare.