
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.

References
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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
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