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Woytchugga_Lacuna Latitude and Longitude:

68°30′N 109°00′W / 68.5°N 109.0°W / 68.5; -109.0
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Woytchugga Lacuna
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'Cassini view of Titan's north polar seas and lakes in the near infrared.
Feature typeLacus
Coordinates 68°30′N 109°00′W / 68.5°N 109.0°W / 68.5; -109.0
Diameter449 km

Woytchugga Lacuna is one of the largest lakes of Titan.

It is located at 68°53′ N and 109°00′ W [1] on Titan's surface and at 449 km in length it is the longest Titanean lake and third longest body of a number of " hydro-carbon lakes" found on Saturn's largest moon". The lake is composed of liquid ethane and methane, [2] and was detected by the Cassini–Huygens space probe.
Indications are that it is an intermittent lake and so was named in 2013 after Lake Woytchugga near Wilcannia, Australia. [1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Woytchugga Lacuna". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. International Astronomical Union (IAU). 3 December 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  2. ^ Athéna Coustenis, F. W. Taylor Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. (World Scientific, 2008) pp. 154–155. ISBN  978-981-270-501-3.