Matsumoto Pond
Matsumoto Pond is a pond south of Dais Col and 1.4 nautical miles west of Don Juan Pond in South Fork, Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Japanese chemist Genki I.Places of Interest
Highlights include Dais Col and Don Juan Pond.
Dais Col
Mountain saddle
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.
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…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Linnaeus Terrace and Dais.
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.
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.
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.
Matsumoto Pond
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-77.55984° or 77° 33′ 35″ southLongitude
161.07138° or 161° 4′ 17″ eastElevation
1,031 metres (3,383 feet)Named after
JapanesseOpen location code
2VJ3C3RC+3HOpenStreetMap ID
way 984548450OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lake
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Matsumoto Pond” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Matsumoto Pond”
- German: “Matsumoto Pond”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Matsumoto Pond”
- Swedish: “Matsumoto Pond”
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