Juturna Lake (, ) is the roughly triangular lake extending in west–east direction and in north–south direction at the east extremity of South Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Its surface area is . The lake is separated from sea by a to strip of land, and drains by way of a stream flowing into the sea west of Rish Point. It is surmounted by Ritli Hill on the east.Juturna Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.L. Ivanov. General Geography and History of Livingston Island. In: Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28.
The feature is named after Juturna, a Roman deity of springs and streams, daughter of Volturnus.
Location Juturna Lake is centred at , which is northeast of Rish Point and southwest of Clark Nunatak. Detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2017.
Maps Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992 L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated
See also Antarctic lakes Livingston Island
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References Juturna Lake. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English) Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 126 Byers Peninsula. Measure 4 (2016), ATCM XXXIX Final Report. Santiago, 2016
External links Juturna Lake. Adjusted Copernix satellite image