Heywood Lake
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Heywood Lake (60°41′S 45°37′W / 60.683°S 45.617°WCoordinates: 60°41′S 45°37′W / 60.683°S 45.617°W) is the northernmost lake in Three Lakes Valley in northeastern Signy Island, one of the South Orkney Islands in the British Antarctic Territory.
The lake was was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Ronald B. Heywood, a limnologist with the Life Sciences Division of the British Antarctic Survey, who worked on Signy Island in 1962–63 and 1970–71.
References
Gazetteer and Map of the BAT and SGSSI: Heywood Lake