Don Juan Pond

Don Juan Pond is a small and very shallow hypersaline lake in the western end of , , , 9 kilometres west from .
Wikipedia
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
  • Type: Lake
  • Description: shallow salt lake in Antarctica
  • Also known as: “Lake Don Juan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Butler Summit and Matsumoto Pond.

Peak
is a peak rising to about 1,000 metres in the extreme western part of the in , . It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Rhett Butler of Incorporated Research Institutions for…

Lake
is a pond south of and 1.4 nautical miles west of Don Juan Pond in , , , Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Japanese chemist Genki I.

Lake
is a pond located 1.1 nautical miles northeast of in , , . A whimsical name, after Don Quixote, applied in juxtaposition to Don Juan Pond.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dais and Linnaeus Terrace.

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 at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in , Antarctica.

Locality
is a rock terrace on the north side of in the of , . 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.

Locality
is a short, tapering on the north side of Plane Table that extends part way down the south wall of , .

Don Juan Pond

Latitude
-77.56326° or 77° 33′ 48″ south
Longitude
161.18699° or 161° 11′ 13″ east
Elevation
918 metres (3,012 feet)
Named after
Lieutenants Donald Roe and John Hickey
Open location code
2VJ3C5PP+MQ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 233314450
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Geo­Names ID
6632253
Wiki­data ID
Q384811
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Satellite Map

Discover Don Juan Pond from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Don Juan Pond” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بحيرة دون خوان”
  • Azerbaijani: “Don-Juan gölü”
  • Bulgarian: “Дон Жуан”
  • Catalan: “Estany Don Juan”
  • Cebuano: “Don Juan Pond”
  • Chinese: “唐璜湖”
  • Chinese: “唐胡安池”
  • Czech: “Don Juan”
  • Dutch: “Don Juanmeer”
  • Esperanto: “Lageto Don Juan”
  • Esperanto: “Lago Don Juan”
  • French: “lac Don Juan”
  • French: “Lac Don Juan”
  • Georgian: “დონ-ჟუანის ტბა”
  • German: “Don-Juan-See”
  • Hebrew: “אגם דון חואן”
  • Indonesian: “Kolam Don Juan”
  • Italian: “DJP”
  • Italian: “Don Juan pond”
  • Italian: “lago Don Juan”
  • Italian: “Lago Don Juan”
  • Italian: “Stagno Don Juan”
  • Japanese: “ドンフアン池”
  • Latvian: “Dona Huana dīķis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Don Juan Pond”
  • Persian: “آبگیر دون خوان”
  • Polish: “Staw Don Juan”
  • Russian: “Дон-Жуан”
  • Spanish: “Lago Don Juan”
  • Swedish: “Don Juan Pond”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบดอนฮวน”
  • Turkish: “Don Juan Gölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Дон-Хуан (озеро)”
  • Ukrainian: “Дон-Хуан”
  • Vietnamese: “Don Juan Pond”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Don Juan”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Dais Col and Anderson Scarp.

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