Mneme Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Мнема, romanized:ezero Mnema, IPA:[ˈɛzɛro ˈmnɛmɐ]) is the oval-shaped 220 m long in southwest–northeast direction and 85 m wide lake on the northwest coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 1.3 ha and is separated from the waters of Barclay Bay by a 12 to 40 m wide strip of land. The lake and its vicinity lye in a restricted zone of scientific importance to Antarctic microbiology, part of the Antarctic Specially Protected Area Byers Peninsula.[1]
Map of Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 Byers PeninsulaEastern Byers Peninsula in Livingston Island with Robbery Beaches and Tsamblak Hill in the middle, and left to right Rowe Point, Ivanov Beach, Urvich Wall and Clark Nunatak in the backgroundMap of Livingston, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
The feature is named after Mneme, the nymph of memory in Greek mythology.[1]
Location
Mneme Lake is situated on Ivanov Beach just west of Rowe Point and centred at 62°35′40.7″S60°54′30″W, which is 2.5km northeast of Bilyar Point. Bulgarian mapping of the area in 2009 and 2017.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated
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