Platno Lake
езеро Платното (Bulgarian)
Location in Antarctica
Location in Antarctica
Platno Lake
Location in Antarctica
LocationNelson Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
TypeNatural lake
Basin countriesAntarctica
Max. length410 m (1345.1 feet)
Max. width170 m (557.7 feet)
Surface area4.2 ha (10.4 acres)

Platno Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Платното, romanized: ezero Platnoto, IPA: ['ɛzɛro plɐt'nɔto]) is the 410 m long in southwest–northeast direction and 170 m wide lake on Long Beach, Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 4.2 ha and is separated from the waters of Bransfield Strait by a 40 to 110 m wide strip of land. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.[1]

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a sail ('platno' in Bulgarian).

Location

Platno Lake is situated at the base of Ross Point and centred at 62°20′51″S 59°06′48″W / 62.34750°S 59.11333°W / -62.34750; -59.11333,[2] which is 3.56 km southeast of The Toe and 3.4 km west-northwest of Vidaurre Point, the south extremity of the island. British mapping of the area in 1968.

Maps

  • Livingston Island to King George Island. Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968
  • South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3373. DOS 610 - W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

Notes

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission

References

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


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