Geography
The Vestfold Hills are largely snow and ice-free and are thus classified as an Antarctic oasis. They contain a great variety of lake systems with over 300 lakes and ponds including what is possibly the largest concentration of meromictic (stratified) lakes in the world. This region contains 37 permanently stratified water bodies, including six marine basins and seven seasonally isolated marine basins (SIMBs). These stratified basins also have great variety. They range in salinity from 4 g L-1 to 235 g L-1, in temperature from -14 to 24 °C (6.8 to 75 °F), in depth from 5 to 110 metres (16 to 360 ft), in area from 3.6 to 146 hectares (8.9 to 360 acres) and surface level from 30 metres (98 ft) below to 29 metres (95 ft) above sea level. The region contains a large lake as well.
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