Lake Vanda is a lake in Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Ross Dependency, Antarctica. The lake is 5 km (3.1 mi) long and has a maximum depth of 69 m (226 ft). [2] On its shore, New Zealand maintained Vanda Station from 1968 to 1995.

Sep 1, 2016 · Lake Vanda is a perennially ice-covered, meromictic, endorheic lake located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, and an exceptional sentinel of climate change within the region.

Feb 6, 2023 · Nearby Lake Vanda is a “meromitic,” or layered, lake with a freshwater cap overlying salty water. The brine at the bottom of Lake Vanda is 3.5 times saltier than the ocean. Scientists have speculated about a groundwater connection between the two lakes since the 1960s without finding conclusive evidence.

Dec 2, 2008 · Lake Vanda has been the subject of a large number of physical, chemical, and biological studies extending in time over four decades. The lake itself is capped by an unusually smooth, transparent, permanent, 4 m-thick ice cover.

Dec 28, 2009 · Lake Vanda can be found in the central region of Wright Valley. The lake is approximately 3 miles long and up to 250 feet deep in places. While the surface waters of Lake Vanda are perennially ice-covered, a thermal inversion caused by the hypersaline nature of the deeper water allows water temperatures to reach nearly 80° F at the lake's bottom.

Lake Vanda is a hypersaline lake with a salinity more than ten times that of seawater, more than the salinity of the Dead Sea, and perhaps even more than of Lake Assal (Djibouti), which is the world's most saline lake outside of Antarctica.

Lake Vanda is a perennially ice-covered, meromictic, endorheic lake located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, and an exceptional sentinel of climate change within the region.

Lake levels rose 15 m over the past 68 years in response to climate-driven variability in ice-cover sublimation, meltwater production, and annual discharge of the Onyx River, the main source of water to the lake.

New data from Lake Fryxell and Lake Hoare in Toylor Valley, along with previously published data from Lake Vanda, Wright Valley and Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley are used to infer the recent climatic history of MDV.

Lake Vanda is located in the Wright Valley, adjacent to the Taylor Valley. It is fed primarily by the Onyx River, which has its origin at Lake Brownworth, and ultimately at the Lower Wright Glacier located ~27 km east of the lake.