Radok Lake


Radok Lake is a meltwater lake about long and marked by a slender glacier tongue feeding into it from the west, lying south-west of Beaver Lake and south-east of the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. It was plotted by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from air photos taken by the RAAF Antarctic Flight in 1956. The lake was named for Uwe Radok, Reader of Meteorology Dept at the University of Melbourne, who greatly assisted Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions 's glaciological program. With a depth of , Radok Lake is the deepest known lake on the Antarctic continent and the only known freshwater lake to host a floating ice tongue glacier. It is drained by Pagodroma Gorge in to Beaver Lake.
Radok Lake is an isothermal and non-stratified Lake, i.e. homogeneous water body.