Stinear Lake

Stinear Lake is an Antarctic salt-water glacial lake.

Stinear Lake
Stinear Lake
Location	Breidnes Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica
Coordinates	68°34′S 78°8′E
Type	salt lakeglacial lake
Max. length	2.8 kilometres; 1.7 miles (1.5 nmi)
Max. width	0.46 kilometres; 0.29 miles (0.25 nmi)
Salinity	yes
Frozen	no

The lake is 2.8 kilometres; 1.7 miles (1.5 nmi) long and 0.46 kilometres; 0.29 miles (0.25 nmi) wide, lying immediately east of Dingle Lake on Breidnes Peninsula, Vestfold Hills of Princess Elizabeth Land in Antarctica.^[1]

It was mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in 1946–47. It was first visited by an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, led by Philip Law, in 1955.^[2] It was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for Bruce H. Stinear (1913-2003), a New Zealand geologist at Davis and Mawson Station for several seasons in the period 1954–59.^[3][4]