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Lake Whillans : ウィキペディア英語版 | Lake Whillans
Lake Whillans is a subglacial lake in Antarctica. The lake is located under the Whillans Ice Stream at the southeastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf in the west of the continent. The lake surface is beneath the surface of the ice and the lake covers an estimated area of . Lake depths measured thus far have been around . Its temperature is −0.49 °C, below 0 °C because of the high pressure. Lake Whillans, like the Whillans Ice Stream, is named for Ohio State University glaciologist Dr. Ian Whillans. ==Discovery==
The lake was first described in 2007 by Helen Fricker, a glaciologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Satellite data had revealed the ice at that location rising and falling, leading her team to conclude the presence of the lake.
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