Watanuki Pond
Watanuki Pond is a pond lying 1.7 nautical miles south-southwest of Apollo Peak in the northwest part of the Labyrinth of Wright Valley. The pond is also positioned as being 0.25 nautical miles east-northeast of Kurasawa Pond and 0.8 m east of the Wright Upper Glacier terminus.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kurasawa Pond and Anvil Pond.
Kurasawa Pond
Lake
Kurasawa Pond is a pond in the northwestern part of the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. It lies south of Dean Cirque and 0.5 nautical miles east of the Wright Upper Glacier terminus.
Anvil Pond
Lake
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.
Apollo Peak
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 Labyrinth and Prentice Plateau.
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.
Prentice Plateau
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.
Watanuki Pond
- Type: Lake
- Description: pond in Antarctica
- Categories: artificial pond and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.52604° or 77° 31′ 34″ southLongitude
160.7714° or 160° 46′ 17″ eastElevation
1,080 metres (3,543 feet)Named after
Kunihiko WatanukiOpen location code
2VJ2FQFC+HHOpenStreetMap ID
way 1258185335OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lake
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In Other Languages
From German to Venetian—“Watanuki Pond” goes by many names.
- German: “Watanuki Pond”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Watanuki Pond”
- Venetian: “Stagno Watanuki”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Linnaeus Terrace and Dais.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pentecost Cirque and Dean Cirque.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Watanuki Pond”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.