Gulbrandsen Lake
Gulbrandsen Lake | |
---|---|
Location | South Georgia |
Coordinates | 54°12′56″S 36°44′24″W / 54.21556°S 36.74000°W |
Basin countries | (South Georgia) |
Max. length | 0.5 mi (0.8 km) |
Gulbrandsen Lake is a lake 0.5 miles (0.8 km) long lying north of Neumayer Glacier in South Georgia. It is now an empty basin; the moraine and or ice dam formed by the Neumeyer Glacier no longer contains this lake. It was charted and named "White City" by the British expedition under Ernest Shackleton, 1921–22, but this name is considered unsuitable and has never been used locally. Gulbrandsen Lake was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1957 for Gunnar Gulbrandsen, a pattern-maker at the Compañía Argentina de Pesca station at Grytviken, 1927–30, carpenter at Stromness, 1945–46, and variously carpenter, dock foreman, dockmaster, and junior officer at the South Georgia Whaling Company station, Leith Harbour, for several years beginning in 1946.[1]
References
This article incorporates public domain material from "Gulbrandsen Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
- Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas
- Use dmy dates from April 2022
- Coordinates on Wikidata
- Articles using infobox body of water without image
- Articles using infobox body of water without pushpin map alt
- Articles using infobox body of water without image bathymetry
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System
- Lakes of South Georgia
- All stub articles
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands geography stubs