Medusa Pool

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Medusa Pool ( 57°4′S26°42′W / 57.067°S 26.700°W / -57.067; -26.700 ) is a tidal lagoon that occupies the west side of the central lowlands of Candlemas Island in the South Sandwich Islands. The name, given by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971, is associated in classical mythology with the geomorphologically similar Gorgon Pool nearby, Medusa being one of the gorgons.^[1]

References

↑ "Medusa Pool". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 12 September 2013.

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[gnis-1] "Medusa Pool". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 12 September 2013.

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