TY - JOUR N2 - A glacier lake outburst flood occurred on James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula region, during the 2004-2005 austral summer season. The source lake was located on the Lachman II ice-cored rock glacier, and formed prior to 1980. The size of the lake has been increasing gradually since the 1990s. The lake basin extended to approximately 220 m in length and 160 m in width by the end of February 2005. We observed that the lake had drained by February 2005, and found a deep gully on the south side of the lake rim. It appears that the lake level rose and water overflowed the lake rim here. James Ross Island contains a large number of debris-covered glaciers, ice-cored moraines, and rock glaciers with glacier lakes which are dammed by these features or which form upon them. As climatic warming has recently been reported for this region, further glacier lake outburst floods seem likely to occur. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/110588/PDF-MASTER/PPR28-003.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/110588 PY - 2007 IS - No 1 EP - 12 KW - Antarctic Peninsula KW - James Ross Island KW - glacier lake outburst flood KW - climatic warming A1 - Sone, Toshio A1 - Fukui, Kotaro A1 - Strelin, Jorge A. A1 - Torielli, Cesar A. A1 - Mori, Junko PB - Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Committee on Polar Research DA - 2007 T1 - Glacier lake outburst flood on James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula region SP - 3 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/110588 T2 - Polish Polar Research ER -