Don Juan Pond
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| Location | western Antarctica |
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| Lake type | saline lake |
| Basin countries | (Antarctica) |
Don Juan Pond is a hypersaline lake in western Antarctica which has even greater salinity than the Dead Sea. It has been claimed that the salinity in Don Juan Pond is over 18 times the ocean's salinity, compared to that of the Dead Sea at about 8 times that of the ocean.
Don Juan Pond was discovered in 1961. It was named for two helicopter pilots, Lt Don Roe and Lt John Hickey, who piloted the helicopter involved with the first field party investigating the pond. On that initial investigation, the temperature was minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 30 degrees Celsius) and the water remained in a liquid state.
[edit] External links
- Nature 280, 828 - 829 (30 August 1979); Life in the calcium chloride environment of Don Juan Pond, Antarctica
- McMurdo Dry Valleys MCM Lakes Data
- USGS GNIS: Don Juan Pond
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