Stinear Lake

Stinear Lake
Stinear Lake
Location	Breidnes Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica
Coordinates	68°34′S78°8′E / 68.567°S 78.133°E / -68.567; 78.133
Type	salt lake glacial lake
Max. length	2.8 kilometres; 1.7 miles (1.5 nmi)
Max. width	0.46 kilometres; 0.29 miles (0.25 nmi)
Salinity	yes
Frozen	no

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

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".

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Stinear Lake". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.