Lake Hoare is a lake about long between

Lake Chad Lake Chad (, Kanuri language, Kanuri: ''Sádǝ'', ) is an endorheic freshwater lake located at the junction of four countries: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, in western and central Africa respectively, with a catchment area in excess of . ...

and Canada Glacier in Taylor Valley,

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78th parallel south, 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Ant ...

, Antarctica. Its surface area measures . The lake was named by the 8th

Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition The Antarctic Research Centre (ARC) is part of the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. Its mission is to research " Antarctic climate history and processes, and their influence on the global cl ...

(VUWAE), 1963–64, for physicist Ray A. Hoare, a member of the VUWAE that examined lakes in Taylor,

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, and Victoria Valleys. Lake Hoare is dammed by the tongue of Canada Glacier, otherwise it would drain into Lake Fryxell, northeast across the glacier tongue. Lake Chad, only southeast of Lake Hoare, sometimes overflows into Lake Hoare.

* Wagner, B., Ortlepp, S., Doran, P., Kenig, F., Melles, M., & Burkemper, A. (2011), '
The Holocene environmental history of Lake Hoare, Taylor Valley, Antarctica, reconstructed from sediment cores
'', Antarctic Science, 23(3), 307–319. doi:10.1017/S0954102011000125 * Wagner, B., Ortlepp, S., Doran, P., Kenig, F., Melles, M., & Burkemper, A. (2011), '
Sediment transport dynamics on an ice-covered lake: The ‘floating’ boulders of Lake Hoare, Antarctica
'', Antarctic Science, 27(2), 173–184. doi:10.1017/S0954102014000558 * Gary D. Clow, Christopher P. McKay, George M. Simmons Jr., Robert A. Wharton Jr., '
Climatological Observations and Predicted Sublimation Rates at Lake Hoare, Antarctica
'', U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California * Tae Hamm, '
Geochemical Evolution of Meltwater from Glacier Snow to Proglacial Lake
'', 1 June 2018 * Johanna Laybourn-Parry, Jemma Wadham, '
Antarctic Lakes
'', Oxford University Press, 2014 * Ana María Alonso-Zarza, Lawrence H. Tanner, '
Paleoenvironmental Record and Applications of Calcretes and Palustrine Carbonates
'', PP 94 - 102

References

Lakes of Victoria Land McMurdo Dry Valleys {{McMurdoDryValleys-geo-stub

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