{{short description|Lacuna on Titan}} {{Infobox feature on celestial object |name = Woytchugga Lacuna |image = PIA17473 Titan lakes cropped.jpg |caption = ''Cassini'' view of Titan's north polar seas and lakes in the near infrared. |type = Lacus |coordinates = {{coord|68.5|N|109.0|W|globe:titan_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} |diameter = 449 km |eponym = }}
'''Woytchugga Lacuna''' is one of the largest [[lakes of Titan]].
It is located at 68°53′ [[north|N]] and 109°00′ [[west|W]]<ref name = IAU/> on [[titan (moon)|Titan's]] surface and at 449 [[kilometre|km]] in length it is the longest [[lakes of titan|Titanean lake]] and third longest body of a number of "[[Methane|hydro-carbon]] [[Lakes of Titan|lakes]]" found on [[Titan (moon)|Saturn's largest moon]]".<ref>{{Cite web |title=NASA's Cassini Reveals Surprises with Titan's Lakes |url=https://www.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/nasas-cassini-reveals-surprises-with-titans-lakes/ |website=NASA |date=April 18, 2019 |access-date=October 27, 2024}}</ref> The lake is composed of [[liquid]] [[ethane]] and [[methane]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Coustenis |first=Athéna |title=Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World |last2=Taylor |first2=F. W. |publisher=World Scientific |year=2008 |isbn=978-981-270-501-3 |edition=2nd |pages=154–155}}.</ref> and was detected by the ''[[Cassini–Huygens]]'' [[space craft|space probe]]. Indications are that it is an intermittent ''lake'' and so was named in 2013 after [[Lake Woytchugga]] near [[Wilcannia]], [[Australia]].<ref name = IAU>{{cite web|title=Woytchugga Lacuna|url=https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/15183;jsessionid=BF40BD196FB856017C02EDBFA795CC6E|website=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature|publisher=[[International Astronomical Union|International Astronomical Union (IAU)]]|access-date=14 January 2016|date=3 December 2013}}</ref>
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