Lake Hoare

77°38′S 162°52′E / 77.633°S 162.867°E / -77.633; 162.867TypeEndorheicPrimary inflowsAndersen Creek,
overflow from Lake ChadPrimary outflowsnoneBasin countries(Antarctica)Max. length4.2 km (2.6 mi)Max. width1 km (0.62 mi)Surface area1.94 km2 (0.75 sq mi)Average depth9 m (30 ft)Max. depth34 m (112 ft)Water volume17,500,000 m3 (620,000,000 cu ft)Surface elevation73 m (240 ft)Islandsa few

Lake Hoare is a lake about 4.2 kilometres (2.6 mi) long between Lake Chad and Canada Glacier in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Its surface area measures 1.94 square kilometres (0.75 sq mi).[1] The lake was named by the 8th Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1963–64, for physicist Ray A. Hoare, a member of the VUWAE that examined lakes in Taylor, Wright, and Victoria Valleys.[2]

Lake Hoare is dammed by the tongue of Canada Glacier, otherwise it would drain into Lake Fryxell, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) northeast across the glacier tongue. Lake Chad, only 5 metres (5.5 yd) southeast of Lake Hoare, sometimes overflows into Lake Hoare.

Further reading

  • Wagner, B., Ortlepp, S., Doran, P., Kenig, F., Melles, M., & Burkemper, A. (2011), The Holocene environmental history of Lake Hoare, Taylor Valley, Antarctica, reconstructed from sediment cores, Antarctic Science, 23(3), 307–319. doi:10.1017/S0954102011000125
  • Wagner, B., Ortlepp, S., Doran, P., Kenig, F., Melles, M., & Burkemper, A. (2011), Sediment transport dynamics on an ice-covered lake: The ‘floating’ boulders of Lake Hoare, Antarctica, Antarctic Science, 27(2), 173–184. doi:10.1017/S0954102014000558
  • Gary D. Clow, Christopher P. McKay, George M. Simmons Jr., Robert A. Wharton Jr., Climatological Observations and Predicted Sublimation Rates at Lake Hoare, Antarctica, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
  • Tae Hamm, Geochemical Evolution of Meltwater from Glacier Snow to Proglacial Lake, 1 June 2018
  • Johanna Laybourn-Parry, Jemma Wadham, Antarctic Lakes, Oxford University Press, 2014
  • Ana María Alonso-Zarza, Lawrence H. Tanner, Paleoenvironmental Record and Applications of Calcretes and Palustrine Carbonates, PP 94 - 102

References

  1. ^ "McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER". mcmlter.org. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Hoare, Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-06-18.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Hoare, Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.


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