Lake Hoare is a lake about long between

Lake Chad Lake Chad (french: Lac Tchad) is a historically large, shallow, endorheic lake in Central Africa, which has varied in size over the centuries. According to the ''Global Resource Information Database'' of the United Nations Environment Programme ...

and

Canada Glacier Canada Glacier is a small glacier flowing south-east into the northern side of Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is in the Ross Dependency. Its melting season is in the summer. Description The glacier receives less than 10 c ...

Taylor Valley Taylor Valley is the southernmost of the three large McMurdo Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica, located west of McMurdo Sound at approximately . The valley extends from Taylor Glacier in the west to McMurdo S ...

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. ...

, Antarctica. Its surface area measures . The lake was named by the 8th

Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition The Antarctic Research Centre (ARC) is part of the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. Its mission is to research " Antarctic climate history and processes, and their influence on the global clim ...

(VUWAE), 1963–64, for physicist Ray A. Hoare, a member of the VUWAE that examined lakes in Taylor,

Wright Wright is an occupational surname originating in England. The term 'Wright' comes from the circa 700 AD Old English word 'wryhta' or 'wyrhta', meaning worker or shaper of wood. Later it became any occupational worker (for example, a shipwright is ...

, and

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seyche ...

Valleys. Lake Hoare is dammed by the tongue of Canada Glacier, otherwise it would drain into

Lake Fryxell Lake Fryxell is a frozen lake long, between Canada Glacier and Commonwealth Glaciers at the lower end of Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was mapped in the early 1900s and named during Operation Deep Freeze in the 1950s. There are ...

, northeast across the glacier tongue. Lake Chad, only southeast of Lake Hoare, sometimes overflows into Lake Hoare.

* 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

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Lakes of Victoria Land McMurdo Dry Valleys {{McMurdoDryValleys-geo-stub

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