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Nordenskjold Lake


The Nordenskjold Lake ( or ) is a lake located in Torres del Paine National Park in the Magallanes Region, southern Chile. The lake is named after the Swede Otto Nordenskiold who discovered the lake in the beginning of the 20th century. The outfall of Nordenskjold 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

French Glacier

References

Gobierno de Chile. 2004. Cuenca del Rio Serrano

C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Guanaco: Lama guanicoe, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg

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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