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Report on the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition 1963-64: VUWAE 8

Lake Canopus *

Lake Canopus *

(100 yards south of and 150 feet above Lake Vanda).

This was the smallest lake investigated in detail for temperature. It is unique in that its temperature increases to 7 1/2° centigrade at 2 1/2 feet below the ice, and then stays constant to the bottom at 7 feet helot the ice.