Naiad Lake

Naiad Lake
Naiad Lake
	Naiad Lake
Location	Livingston Island, Antarctica
Coordinates	62°38′25.4″S 61°08′34″W / 62.640389°S 61.14278°WCoordinates: 62°38′25.4″S 61°08′34″W / 62.640389°S 61.14278°W
Lake type	Glacial lake
Max. length	230 metres (750 ft)
Max. width	150 metres (490 ft)
Surface area	2.98 hectares (7.4 acres)

Map of Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula featuring Naiad Lake

Map of Livingston, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands

Naiad Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Наяда, romanized: ezero Nayada, IPA: [ˈɛzɛro nɐˈjadɐ]) is the roughly rectangular 230 m-long (250 yd) in south-north direction and 150 m-wide (160 yd) lake on President Beaches, Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 2.98 ha (7.4 acres), and is separated from Osogovo Bay waters by a 12-to-90 m-wide (10-to-100 yd) strip of land.^[1] The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.^[2]

The feature is named after the Naiads, nymphs of springs, streams, rivers, and lakes in Greek mythology.^[1]

Location[]

Naiad Lake is situated on the southwest side of Laager Point and centred at

62°38′25.4″S 61°08′34″W / 62.640389°S 61.14278°W, which is 1.4 km (1 mi) north-northeast of Point Smellie. Detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2017.

Maps[]

Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992
L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

Notes[]

^ ^a ^b Naiad Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
^ L. Ivanov. General Geography and History of Livingston Island. In: Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28.

References[]

Naiad Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 126 Byers Peninsula. Measure 4 (2016), ATCM XXXIX Final Report. Santiago, 2016

External links[]

Naiad Lake. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

[CGA-1] Naiad Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

[General-2] L. Ivanov. General Geography and History of Livingston Island. In: Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28.

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