Crater Lake
Crater Lake is a volcanic crater, now filled with water, lying north-west of Mount Kirkwood on the south-west side of Port Foster, in the belly of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, part of the British Antarctic Territory.
Antarctic Specially Protected Area
The site forms part of an Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA 140), comprising several separate sites on Deception Island, and designated as such primarily for its botanic and ecological values.[1]
Surveys and naming
The lake was charted in a survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1953-54 and named descriptively.
Location
- Location map:62°58’59"S, 60°39’58"W
References
- ↑ "Parts of Deception Island, South Shetland Islands". Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 140: Measure 3, Appendix 1. Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2005. http://www.ats.aq/documents/recatt/Att242_e.pdf. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Crater Lake