Lake Garwood
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Lake Garwood is a lake at the lower end of
Garwood Valley Garwood Valley () is a valley opening on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, just south of Cape Chocolate. It is largely ice-free, but is occupied near its head by the Garwood Glacier. It was named by Thomas Griffith Taylor of the British Antar ...
on the Scott Coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The lake receives meltwater from Garwood Glacier at the
valley head The head of the valley or, less commonly, the valley head, refers to the uppermost part of a valley.Leser (2005), p. 935. Description The head of a valley may take widely differing forms; for example, in highland regions the valley often ends i ...
. It was named by
Thomas Griffith Taylor Thomas Griffith "Grif" Taylor (1 December 1880 – 5 November 1963) was an English-born geographer, anthropologist and world explorer. He was a survivor of Captain Robert Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica (1910–1913). Taylor was a se ...
of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, in association with Garwood Glacier.


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Lakes of Victoria Land Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-geo-stub