Mneme Lake

{{short description|Antarctic lake}} {{Infobox body of water | name = Mneme Lake | native_name = | native_name_lang = | other_name =  | image = | alt = | caption = | image_bathymetry = | alt_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry =  | location = Livingston Island, Antarctica | group = | coordinates = {{coord|62|35|40.7|S|60|54|30|W|region:AQ_type:waterbody|display =inline,title}} | lake_type = Glacial lake | etymology = | part_of = | inflow = | rivers = | outflow = | oceans = | catchment =  | basin_countries = | agency = | designation = | date-built =  | engineer = | date-flooded =  | length = {{convert|220|m}} | width = {{convert|85|m}} | area = {{convert|1.3|ha}} | depth =  | max-depth =  | volume =  | residence_time = | salinity = | shore =  | elevation =  | temperature_high =  | temperature_low =  | frozen = | islands = | islands_category = | sections = | trenches = | benches = | cities =  | pushpin_map = South Shetland Islands | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = Location of lake in the South Shetland Islands | pushpin_map_caption =  | website = | reference = }} [[File:ASPA-126-Byers-Peninsula.png|thumb|Map of Antarctic Specially Protected Area ''ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula'']] [[File:Byers Peninsula, eastern part.jpg|thumb|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]] [[File:Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg|thumb|Map of Livingston, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands]] '''Mneme Lake''' ({{langx|bg|езеро Мнема|ezero Mnema}}, {{IPA|bg|ˈɛzɛro ˈmnɛmɐ|IPA}}) 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.''<ref name=CGA>[https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=139221 Mneme Lake.] SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica</ref>

The feature is named after Mneme, the nymph of memory in Greek mythology.<ref name=CGA/>

==Location== Mneme Lake is situated on Ivanov Beach just west of Rowe Point and centred at {{coord|62|35|40.7|S|60|54|30|W|display=inline}}, which is 2.5 km northeast of Bilyar Point. Bulgarian mapping of the area in 2009 and 2017.

==Maps== * L. Ivanov. [http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg 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}} * [http://www.add.scar.org 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

==Notes== {{reflist}}

==References== * [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=139221 Mneme Lake.] SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica * [http://apcbg.org/gazet-bg.pdf Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.] Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, [http://apcbg.org/gazet.pdf basic data] in English) * [http://www.ats.aq/documents/recatt%5Catt591_e.pdf Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 126 Byers Peninsula.] Measure 4 (2016), ATCM XXXIX Final Report. Santiago, 2016

==External links== * [https://copernix.io/#?where=-60.90913229828643,-62.59417109245898,17&?query=&?map_type=hybrid Mneme Lake.] Adjusted Copernix satellite image

Category:Bodies of water of Livingston Island Category:Lakes of the South Shetland Islands Category:Bulgaria and the Antarctic