Lake Hoare is a lake about 4.2 kilometres (2.6 mi) long between Lake Chad and Canada Glacier in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Its surface area measures 1.94 square kilometres (0.75 sq mi).[1] The lake was named by the 8th Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1963–64, for physicist Ray A. Hoare, a member of the VUWAE that examined lakes in Taylor, Wright, and Victoria Valleys.[2]
| Lake Hoare | |
|---|---|
 Lake Hoare in 2014 | |
  Lake Hoare | |
| Location | Taylor Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica |
| Coordinates | 77°38′S 162°52′E / 77.633°S 162.867°E |
| Type | Endorheic |
| Primary inflows | Andersen Creek, overflow from Lake Chad |
| Primary outflows | none |
| Basin countries | (Antarctica) |
| Max. length | 4.2 km (2.6 mi) |
| Max. width | 1 km (0.62 mi) |
| Surface area | 1.94 km2 (0.75 sq mi) |
| Average depth | 9 m (30 ft) |
| Max. depth | 34 m (112 ft) |
| Water volume | 17,500,000 m3 (620,000,000 cu ft) |
| Surface elevation | 73 m (240 ft) |
| Islands | a few |
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 (5.5 yd) southeast of Lake Hoare, sometimes overflows into Lake Hoare.
Further reading edit
- Wagner, B., Ortlepp, S., Doran, P., Kenig, F., Melles, M., & Burkemper, A. (2011), The Holocene environmental history of Lake Hoare, Taylor Valley, Antarctica, reconstructed from sediment cores, Antarctic Science, 23(3), 307–319. doi:10.1017/S0954102011000125
- Wagner, B., Ortlepp, S., Doran, P., Kenig, F., Melles, M., & Burkemper, A. (2011), Sediment transport dynamics on an ice-covered lake: The ‘floating’ boulders of Lake Hoare, Antarctica, Antarctic Science, 27(2), 173–184. doi:10.1017/S0954102014000558
- Gary D. Clow, Christopher P. McKay, George M. Simmons Jr., Robert A. Wharton Jr., Climatological Observations and Predicted Sublimation Rates at Lake Hoare, Antarctica, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
- Tae Hamm, Geochemical Evolution of Meltwater from Glacier Snow to Proglacial Lake, 1 June 2018
- Johanna Laybourn-Parry, Jemma Wadham, Antarctic Lakes, Oxford University Press, 2014
- Ana María Alonso-Zarza, Lawrence H. Tanner, Paleoenvironmental Record and Applications of Calcretes and Palustrine Carbonates, PP 94 - 102
References edit
- ^ "McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER". mcmlter.org. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- ^ "Hoare, Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
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