Lake Hoare Explained

Lake Hoare
Coords:	-77.6333°N 214°W
Type:	Endorheic
Pushpin Map:	Antarctica
Pushpin Map Alt:	Location of Lake Hoare
Outflow:	none
Basin Countries:	(Antarctica)
Length:	4.2km (02.6miles)
Width:	1km (01miles)
Area:	1.94km2
Depth:	9m (30feet)
Max-Depth:	34m (112feet)
Volume:	17500000m^2
Elevation:	73m (240feet)
Islands:	a few

Lake Hoare is a lake about long between Lake Chad and Canada Glacier in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Its surface area measures . The lake was named by the 8th Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1963–64, for physicist Ray A. Hoare, a member of the VUWAE that examined lakes in Taylor, Wright, and Victoria Valleys.

Lake Hoare is dammed by the tongue of Canada Glacier, otherwise it would drain into Lake Fryxell, northeast across the glacier tongue. Lake Chad, only 5m (16feet) southeast of Lake Hoare, sometimes overflows into Lake Hoare.

Further reading

• Wagner, B., Ortlepp, S., Doran, P., Kenig, F., Melles, M., & Burkemper, A. (2011), The Holocene environmental history of Lake Hoare, Taylor Valley, Antarctica, reconstructed from sediment cores, Antarctic Science, 23(3), 307–319. doi:10.1017/S0954102011000125
• Wagner, B., Ortlepp, S., Doran, P., Kenig, F., Melles, M., & Burkemper, A. (2011), Sediment transport dynamics on an ice-covered lake: The ‘floating’ boulders of Lake Hoare, Antarctica, Antarctic Science, 27(2), 173–184. doi:10.1017/S0954102014000558
• Gary D. Clow, Christopher P. McKay, George M. Simmons Jr., Robert A. Wharton Jr., Climatological Observations and Predicted Sublimation Rates at Lake Hoare, Antarctica, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
• Tae Hamm, Geochemical Evolution of Meltwater from Glacier Snow to Proglacial Lake, 1 June 2018
• Johanna Laybourn-Parry, Jemma Wadham, Antarctic Lakes, Oxford University Press, 2014
• Ana María Alonso-Zarza, Lawrence H. Tanner, Paleoenvironmental Record and Applications of Calcretes and Palustrine Carbonates, PP 94 - 102