Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Roberto P. Schlatter, Chilean biologist who worked in the United States ArmyRP birdbanding program relative to the Adelie penguin and the south polar skua, at Cape Crazier in the 1969-70 and 1970-71 seasons.

A lake in the extreme west end of Pearse Valley, north of Friis Hills in Victoria Land.

House, chemist and member of the VUWAE party that explored lakes in the Taylor, Wright, and Victoria Valleys.

The lake was studied by the New Zealand VUWAE (1963-64) which named it after Ernest Joyce, a member of earlier British expeditions to the area led by Scott (1901-04) and Shackleton (1907-09).

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