Whale Lake
Whale Lake is a lake in Antarctica. Whale Lake is situated nearby to the locality South Collins Moraine, as well as near the neighborhood President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake
- Also known as: “Walsee”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fildes Peninsula and Davies Heights.
Fildes Peninsula
Protected area
Photo: Arcibel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Fildes Peninsula is a 7 km long peninsula that forms the south-western end of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was named from association with nearby Fildes Strait by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960; the strait was likely named for Robert Fildes, a British sealer of the 1800s.
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.
Teniente R. Marsh Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Teniente Rodolfo Marsh Martin Airport is on King George Island, part of Chile's Antártica commune in Antarctica, and is the northernmost airport in the continent.
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.
Whale Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.17012° or 62° 10′ 12″ southLongitude
-58.94151° or 58° 56′ 29″ westElevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
3893R3H5+X9OpenStreetMap ID
way 1121246505OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
6627756Wikidata ID
Q21474753
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Swedish—“Whale Lake” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Walsee (King George Island)”
- Cebuano: “Walsee”
- Chinese: “Dajiao Hu”
- Chinese: “大腳湖”
- French: “Lac Baleine”
- German: “Walbach”
- German: “Walsee (King George Island)”
- German: “Walsee”
- Spanish: “Laguna Ballena”
- Swedish: “Walsee”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as South Collins Moraine and Estación Marítima Antártica.
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