Vestfold Hills
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The Vestfold Hills are rounded, rocky, coastal hills, 512 square kilometres in extent, on the north side of Sorsdal Glacier on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. The
A panoramic view of the northern end of Stinear Lake, in the snow-covered Vestfold Hills, Antarctica.
Meromictic lake
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A meromictic lake is a lake which has layers of water that do not intermix. In ordinary, holomictic lakes, at least once each year, there is a physical mixing of the surface and the deep waters.
Vestfold Hills
…an Antarctic oasis. They contain a great variety of lake systems with over 300 lakes and ponds including what is possibly the largest concentration of meromictic (stratified) lakes in the world. This region contains 37 permanently stratified water bodies, including six marine basins and seven seasonally isolated…
McGinnis Lake is a meromictic lake within the Petroglyphs Provincial Park.
Lac Pavin in France is a meromictic crater lake.
Strandvatnet in Nordland down to the left; only a small isthmus separates the lake from Ofotfjord.
Lac du Bourget is the largest and deepest lake in France