Mneme Lake

Mneme Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Мнема, romanized: ezero Mnema, IPA: [ˈɛzɛro ˈmnɛmɐ]) is the oval-shaped 220 m long in southwest–northeast direction and 85 m wide lake on the northwest coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 1.3 ha and is separated from the waters of Barclay Bay by a 12 to 40 m wide strip of land. The lake and its vicinity lie in a restricted zone of scientific importance to Antarctic microbiology, part of the Antarctic Specially Protected Area Byers Peninsula.

Mneme Lake
Mneme Lake
Location	Livingston Island, Antarctica
Coordinates	62°35′40.7″S 60°54′30″W
Lake type	Glacial lake
Max. length	220 metres (720 ft)
Max. width	85 metres (279 ft)
Surface area	1.3 hectares (3.2 acres)

Map of Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula

Eastern Byers Peninsula in Livingston Island with Robbery Beaches and Tsamblak Hill in the middle, and left to right Rowe Point, Ivanov Beach, Urvich Wall and Clark Nunatak in the background

Map of Livingston, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands

The feature is named after Mneme, the nymph of memory in Greek mythology.

Location

Mneme Lake is situated on Ivanov Beach just west of Rowe Point and centred at 62°35′40.7″S 60°54′30″W, which is 2.5 km northeast of Bilyar Point. Bulgarian mapping of the area in 2009 and 2017.

Maps

• L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
• L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

See also

• Antarctic lakes
• Livingston Island

References

• Mneme Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (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

• Mneme Lake. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.