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Volturnus Lake (, ) is the roughly triangular lake extending 225 m in north–south direction and 215 m in east–west direction on the southwest coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Its surface area is 3.15 ha. Volturnus Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The area was visited by early 19th century seal hunting.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 Volturnus, a Ancient Rome and Etruscans deity of water and rivers.
Location
Volturnus Lake is situated 140 m from the sea and centred at , which is 965 m east of Rish Point, 440 m south of Clark Nunatak and 1.4 km northwest of Amadok Point. Detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping of the area in 2009 and 2017.
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