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Matsumoto Pond
Matsumoto
Pond
is a
pond
south
of
Dais Col
and
west
of
Don Juan Pond
in
South Fork
,
Wright Valley
,
Victoria Land
,
Antarctica
. It was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
after Japanese
chemist
Genki
I. Matsumoto, who was a member of four
Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition
field
parties
that made geophysical and geochemical
studies
of ponds in the
McMurdo Dry Valleys
, including
investigation
of this
feature
.