Acheron Lake
Acheron Lake is the B-shaped long in southwest-northeast direction and wide lake on President Beaches, Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of, and is separated from Osogovo Bay waters by a wide strip of land. Lucifer Crags surmount the lake on the southwest. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The feature is named after Acheron River in Greek underworld.
Location
Acheron Lake is centred south of Point Smellie, west-northwest of Wasp Hill and northeast of Devils Point and north-northeast of Point Smellie. Detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2017.Maps
- Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992
- L. Ivanov. 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.
- Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated