Lake Priyadarshini is a freshwater

lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

in the

Schirmacher Oasis The Schirmacher Oasis (or Schirmacher Lake Plateau) is a long and up to wide ice-free plateau with more than 100 freshwater lakes. It is situated in the Schirmacher Hills on the Princess Astrid Coast in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica and is ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...

. It supplies water for Maitri, India's second permanent station in Antarctica. Lake Priyadarshini was named after the then Prime Minister of India Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi. Lake Indira Priyadarshini Zaman

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Thermal Structure, Sedimentology, and Hydro-geochemistry of Lake Priyadarshini, Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica
by R. Sinha and Asim Chatterjee Lakes of Queen Maud Land Princess Astrid Coast Lakes of Antarctica {{PrincessAstridCoast-geo-stub