Basalt Lake | |
Location: | Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica |
Coordinates: | -62.6431°N -61.0594°W |
Type: | lake |
Pushpin Map: | South Shetland Islands |
Pushpin Map Alt: | Location of lake in the South Shetland Islands |
Basalt Lake is a small freshwater lake surrounded by three basalt outcrops with ‘organ-pipe’ formations in their rocks, situated in the central part of the ice-free Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. and draining through a stream southwards into Bransfield Strait.
The feature is descriptively named from the surrounding rock formations.
Basalt Lake is centred at -62.6431°N -61.0594°W which is northeast of Sealer Hill, east of Usnea Plug, east-southeast of Chester Cone, west-southwest of Tsamblak Hill and west-northwest from Negro Hill (British mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).