Lake Bull
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Bull, Lake”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vanda, Lake.
Vanda, Lake
Lake
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Lake Vanda is a lake in Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Ross Dependency, Antarctica. The lake is 5 km long and has a maximum depth of 69 m. On its shore, New Zealand maintained Vanda Station from 1968 to 1995.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vanda Station and Prospect Mesa.
Vanda Station
Locality
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Vanda Station was an Antarctic research base in the western highlands of the Ross Dependency, specifically on the shore of Lake Vanda, at the mouth of Onyx River, in the Wright Valley.
Prospect Mesa
Locality
Prospect Mesa is a low mesa in Victoria Land, in eastern Antarctica. It lies below Bull Pass on the north side of Wright Valley. The name designates that it is part of the regional geological Prospect Formation.
Nakai Snowfield
Locality
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.
Lake Bull
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-77.52505° or 77° 31′ 30″ southLongitude
161.71164° or 161° 42′ 42″ eastElevation
269 metres (883 feet)Named after
Colin BullOpen location code
2VJ3FPF6+XMOpenStreetMap ID
way 233313290OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lake
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Lake Bull” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bull”
- German: “Lake Bull”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lake Bull”
- Swedish: “Bull”
- Swedish: “Lake Bull”
- Welsh: “Llyn Bull”
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Localities in the Area
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