Don Quixote Pond
Don Quixote Pond is a pond located 1.1 nautical miles northeast of Dais Col in North Fork, Wright Valley, Victoria Land. A whimsical name, after Don Quixote, applied in juxtaposition to Don Juan Pond.Places of Interest
Highlights include Don Juan Pond and Butler Summit.
Don Juan Pond
Lake
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Don Juan Pond is a small and very shallow hypersaline lake in the western end of Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica, 9 kilometres west from Lake Vanda.
Butler Summit
Peak
Butler Summit is a peak rising to about 1,000 metres in the extreme western part of the Dais in Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Rhett Butler of Incorporated Research Institutions for…
Thrace, Mount
Peak
The Olympus Range is a primarily ice-free mountain range of Victoria Land, Antarctica, with peaks over 2,000 metres high, between Victoria Valley and McKelvey Valley on the north and Wright Valley on the south.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dais and Linnaeus Terrace.
Dais
Locality
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Wright Valley is a large east–west trending valley, formerly occupied by a glacier but now ice free except for Wright Upper Glacier at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Linnaeus Terrace
Locality
Linnaeus Terrace is a rock terrace on the north side of Oliver Peak in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area No.138 because it is one of the richest known sites for the cryptoendolithic communities that colonise the Beacon Sandstone. Linnaeus Terrace is situated 7 km south of Don Quixote Pond.
Labyrinth
Locality
Photo: Dturme, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Labyrinth is an extensive flat upland area which has been deeply eroded, at the west end of Wright Valley, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was so named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition because the eroded dolerite of which it is formed gives an appearance of a labyrinth. Labyrinth is situated 8 km west of Don Quixote Pond.
Don Quixote Pond
- Type: Lake
- Description: pond in Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-77.53315° or 77° 31′ 59″ southLongitude
161.16468° or 161° 9′ 53″ eastElevation
777 metres (2,549 feet)Named after
Alonso QuijanoOpen location code
2VJ3F587+PVOpenStreetMap ID
way 984130007OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lake
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Don Quixote Pond” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Don Quixote Pond”
- German: “Don Quixote Pond”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Don Quixote Pond”
- Swedish: “Don Quixote Pond”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dais Col and Matsumoto Pond.
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