Volturnus Lake
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. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The feature is named after Volturnus, a Roman and Etruscan 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.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