Taiyang Lake
Taiyang Lake is a lake in Antarctica. Taiyang Lake is situated nearby to the locality South Collins Moraine, as well as near the neighborhood President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base.- Type: Lake
- Description: lake
- Also known as: “Taiyang Hu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Davies Heights and Holy Trinity Church.
Davies Heights
Peak
The Davies Heights are an elevated area, roughly elliptical in form and 1 nautical mile long, rising to 150 metres in north-central Fildes Peninsula, King George Island.
Holy Trinity Church
Church
Photo: ArJuna, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Holy Trinity Church is a small Russian Orthodox church on King George Island near Bellingshausen Station, a Russian research station in Antarctica. It is one of the eight churches on Antarctica and the southernmost Eastern Orthodox church in the world.
Slalom Lake
Lake
Slalom Lake is a small lake 0.25 nautical miles north of Ardley Cove, Fildes Peninsula, King George Island. Located near the Soviet Antarctic Expedition Bellingshausen Station, erected 1968, the lake was named "Ozero Slalomnoye".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base.
President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base
Neighborhood
Photo: Mefisto29, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva is the most important Antarctic base of Chile. It is located at Fildes Peninsula, an ice-free area, in front of Fildes Bay, at the west end of King George Island, South Shetland Islands.
Taiyang Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-62.18206° or 62° 10′ 55″ southLongitude
-58.9393° or 58° 56′ 22″ westElevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
3893R396+57OpenStreetMap ID
way 1122111051OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
6626421Wikidata ID
Q21473875
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Satellite Map
Discover Taiyang Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Taiyang Lake” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Taiyang Hu”
- Chinese: “Taiyang Hu”
- Chinese: “太阳湖”
- French: “Lac Taiyang”
- German: “Taiyang Hu”
- German: “Taiyang-See”
- Spanish: “Laguna Taiyang”
- Swedish: “Taiyang Hu”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as South Collins Moraine and Estación Marítima Antártica.
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