Siren Lake (, ) is the oval-shaped 250 m long in southeast-northwest direction and 140 m wide lake near the west extremity of South Beaches on

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in the

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. It has a surface area of 2.7 ha and is separated from

Raskuporis Cove Raskuporis Cove (, ) is the 1.77 km wide cove indenting for 700 m the south coast of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Entered west of Sevar Point and east of Devils Point, and connected to O ...

waters by a 55 to 70 m wide strip of land.Siren Lake.
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The area was visited by early 19th century

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.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. The feature is named after the Siren

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Location

Siren Lake is centred at , 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. * L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

Notes

References

Siren Lake.

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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (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 Bodies of water of Livingston Island Lakes of the South Shetland Islands Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub

Location

Maps

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