Fontus Lake

Fontus Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Фонт, romanized: ezero Font, IPA: [ˈɛzɛro ˈfɔnt]) is the oval-shaped 150 m long in south-southwest to north-northeast direction and 100 m wide lake in the middle part of South Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 1.9 ha and is separated from sea by a 53 to 64 m wide strip of land.^[1] The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.^[2]

Fontus Lake
Fontus Lake
Location	Livingston Island, Antarctica
Coordinates	62°39′40.4″S 61°00′19″W
Lake type	Glacial lake
Max. length	150 metres (490 ft)
Max. width	100 metres (330 ft)
Surface area	1.9 hectares (4.7 acres)

Map of Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula featuring Fontus Lake

Map of Livingston, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands

The feature is named after Fontus, a Roman deity of springs and streams, son of Juturna.^[1]

Location

Fontus Lake is centred at 62°39′40.4″S 61°00′19″W, which is 600 m northeast of Dometa Point and 740 m south of Negro Hill. Detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2017.

Maps

• Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992
• L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
• L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

See also

• Antarctic lakes
• Livingston Island

Notes

1. Fontus Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
2. L. Ivanov. General Geography and History of Livingston Island. In: Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28.

References

• Fontus Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
• J. Ruiz-Fernández and M. Oliva. Relative Paleoenvironmental Adjustments Following Deglaciation of the Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 48 (2016) 2. pp. 345-359. (Figure 2: Map of Negro Hill area featuring Fontus Lake)
• Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 126 Byers Peninsula. Measure 4 (2016), ATCM XXXIX Final Report. Santiago, 2016

External links

• Fontus Lake. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.