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Lake Oid

Lake

One of two small lakes (the other Lake Iule), between Lake Buddha and Penance Pass, in the McMurdo Dry Valleys.

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3479.864km

Named by VUWAE 4 1960-61 (Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition). Advised that the name may be a diminuative, applied following a habit of Texan geologist Dick Blank, due to the small size or ephemeral nature of the lake. "Dick talked about fact-oids meaning observations we thought were correct only to find they did not stand up to subsequent testing. So other nouns like dinner became dinner-oid when the evening meal was burnt on the primus and became inedible. Its all a bit infantile but odd things happen when people are confined to share a tent for two months in an isolated environment."

NZTM2000: 1387786, 1317691

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