Ginkgo Tarn ( Bulgarian: езеро Гинкго, romanized: ezero Ginkgo, IPA: ['ɛzɛro 'ginko]) is the lake extending 140 m in southeast–northwest direction and 100 m in southwest–northeast direction on Long Beach, Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 1.5 ha and drains westwards into Platno Lake by way of a 250 m long stream. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers. [1]
The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a ginkgo tree leaf.
Ginkgo Tarn is centred at 62°20′47″S 59°06′26″W / 62.34639°S 59.10722°W, [2] which is 820 m east-northeast of Ross Point, 6.55 km west of Ivan Alexander Point and 3.17 km 3.4 km west-northwest of Vidaurre Point, the south extremity of the island. British mapping of the area in 1968.
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
Ginkgo Tarn ( Bulgarian: езеро Гинкго, romanized: ezero Ginkgo, IPA: ['ɛzɛro 'ginko]) is the lake extending 140 m in southeast–northwest direction and 100 m in southwest–northeast direction on Long Beach, Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 1.5 ha and drains westwards into Platno Lake by way of a 250 m long stream. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers. [1]
The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a ginkgo tree leaf.
Ginkgo Tarn is centred at 62°20′47″S 59°06′26″W / 62.34639°S 59.10722°W, [2] which is 820 m east-northeast of Ross Point, 6.55 km west of Ivan Alexander Point and 3.17 km 3.4 km west-northwest of Vidaurre Point, the south extremity of the island. British mapping of the area in 1968.
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.