Gadarene Lake

Gadarene Lake is a lake at the foot of Swine Hill, amongst the Batterbee Mountains inland of the west coast of Palmer Land in the British Antarctic Territory. The lake appears to be intermittent, with changing meltwaters and glaciation.

This lake is a meltwater lake, one nautical mile long in the ice shelf of George VI Sound. Its eastern shore borders the exposed rocks of the west coast of Palmer Land. In summer a considerable volume of water enters the lake from the ravine immediately north of Swine Hill.

The hill and the lake were surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, who erected a cairn on the summit. The name 'Gadarene Lake' comes from an incident where the expedition's sled dogs attempted to throw themselves and their sledge down the steep ice slopes into the water, which reminded the explorers of the mad rush of the Biblical Gadarene swine. Swine Hill takes its name from the same incident.