Lake Hoare

Lake Hoare is a lake about 4.2 kilometres (2.6 mi) long between Lake Chad and Canada Glacier in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Its surface area measures 1.94 square kilometres (0.75 sq mi).^[1] The lake was named by the 8th Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1963–64, for physicist Ray A. Hoare, a member of the VUWAE that examined lakes in Taylor, Wright, and Victoria Valleys.^[2]

Lake Hoare
Lake Hoare in 2014
Lake Hoare
Location	Taylor Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica
Coordinates	77°38′S 162°52′E
Type	Endorheic
Primary inflows	Andersen Creek, overflow from Lake Chad
Primary outflows	none
Basin countries	(Antarctica)
Max. length	4.2 km (2.6 mi)
Max. width	1 km (0.62 mi)
Surface area	1.94 km2 (0.75 sq mi)
Average depth	9 m (30 ft)
Max. depth	34 m (112 ft)
Water volume	17,500,000 m3 (620,000,000 cu ft)
Surface elevation	73 m (240 ft)
Islands	a few

Lake Hoare is dammed by the tongue of Canada Glacier, otherwise it would drain into Lake Fryxell, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) northeast across the glacier tongue. Lake Chad, only 5 metres (5.5 yd) southeast of Lake Hoare, sometimes overflows into Lake Hoare.

Further reading

• Wagner, B., Ortlepp, S., Doran, P., Kenig, F., Melles, M., & Burkemper, A. (2011), The Holocene environmental history of Lake Hoare, Taylor Valley, Antarctica, reconstructed from sediment cores, Antarctic Science, 23(3), 307–319. doi:10.1017/S0954102011000125
• Wagner, B., Ortlepp, S., Doran, P., Kenig, F., Melles, M., & Burkemper, A. (2011), Sediment transport dynamics on an ice-covered lake: The ‘floating’ boulders of Lake Hoare, Antarctica, Antarctic Science, 27(2), 173–184. doi:10.1017/S0954102014000558
• Gary D. Clow, Christopher P. McKay, George M. Simmons Jr., Robert A. Wharton Jr., Climatological Observations and Predicted Sublimation Rates at Lake Hoare, Antarctica, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
• Tae Hamm, Geochemical Evolution of Meltwater from Glacier Snow to Proglacial Lake, 1 June 2018
• Johanna Laybourn-Parry, Jemma Wadham, Antarctic Lakes, Oxford University Press, 2014
• Ana María Alonso-Zarza, Lawrence H. Tanner, Paleoenvironmental Record and Applications of Calcretes and Palustrine Carbonates, PP 94 - 102