Nereid Lake

Nereid Lake
Location	Greenwich Island, Antarctica
Lake type	Glacial lake
Max. length	450 metres (1,480 ft)
Max. width	90 metres (300 ft)
Surface area	3.8 hectares (9.4 acres)

Topographic map of Livingston Island area featuring Nereid Lake

Nereid Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Нереида, IPA: [ˈɛzɛro nɛrɛˈidɐ]) is the trapezoidal lake 450 m long in west-southwest to east-northeast direction and 90 m wide in the eastern part of Flamingo Beach on the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 3.8 ha and is separated from the waters of Orión Passage by a 20 to 40 m wide strip of land. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The feature is named after the Nereids, sea nymphs of Greek mythology.

Location

Nereid Lake is situated just west of Agüedo Point and centred at , which is 800 m east-southeast of Brusen Point. Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2017.

Maps

• 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

See also

• Antarctic lakes

References

• Nereid Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

• Nereid Lake. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

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