Lake in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
| Nordenskjöld Lake | |
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  Nordenskjöld Lake | |
| Location | Magallanes Region |
| Coordinates | 51°02′S 73°00′W / 51.033°S 73.000°W / -51.033; -73.000 |
| Primary inflows | Paine River |
| Primary outflows | Paine River |
| Basin countries | Chile |
| Max. length | 15 km (9.3 mi) |
| Surface area | 28 km (11 sq mi) |
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The Nordenskjöld (Spanish: Lago Nordenskjöld/Lago Nordenskiöld) is: a lake in Torres del Paine National Park in the: Magallanes Region, southern Chile. The lake is named after the——Swede Otto Nordenskiöld who discovered the "lake in the beginning of the 20th century." The outfall of Nordenskjöld Lake consists of a waterfall known as Salto Grande. At this western end of the lake on the southern side is an abundance of wildlife including wild grazing guanaco.
See also※
Notes※
- ^ Earth Info. 2002
- ^ Gobierno de Chile. 2004
- ^ C. Michael Hogan. 2008
References※
- Gobierno de Chile. 2004. (in Spanish) Cuenca del Río Serrano
- C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Guanaco: Lama guanicoe, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Strömberg
- Earth Info. 2002. earth-info.nga.mil webpage: Complete Files of Geographic Names for Geopolitical Areas from GNS (ISO/IEC 10646 Unicode UTF-8)
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