Siren Lake

Siren Lake
Siren Lake
	Siren Lake
Location	Livingston Island, Antarctica
Coordinates	62°40′08″S 61°08′53″W
Lake type	Glacial lake
Max. length	250 metres (820 ft)
Max. width	140 metres (460 ft)
Surface area	2.7 hectares (6.7 acres)

Siren Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Сирена, romanized: ezero Sirena, IPA: [ˈɛzɛro siˈrɛnɐ]) is the oval-shaped 250 m long in southeast-northwest direction and 140 m wide lake near the west extremity of South Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 2.7 ha and is separated from Raskuporis Cove waters by a 55 to 70 m wide strip of land.[1] The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.[2]

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

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

The feature is named after the Siren nymphs of Greek mythology.[1]

Location

Siren Lake is centred at 62°40′08″S 61°08′53″W, which is 1.8 km east of Devils Point, 800 m east-southeast of Lucifer Crags, 1 km southwest of Wasp Hill and 680 m north of Sevar Point. 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

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Notes

Siren Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
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

Siren Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 126 Byers Peninsula. Measure 4 (2016), ATCM XXXIX Final Report. Santiago, 2016

External links

Siren Lake. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

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

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[CGA-1] Siren Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

[General-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.