Beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice sits a lake the size of a small sea, sealed off from the sky for millions of years and possibly still holding life

Beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice sits a lake the size of a small sea, sealed off from the sky for millions of years and possibly still holding life

body.single-post h1.entry-title,body.single-post .entry-title{text-transform:none!important;} Lake Vostok is one of the strangest lakes on Earth because, for most purposes, Earth has hidden it from itself. It lies under the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet, near Russia’s Vostok Station, beneath roughly four kilometres of ice. No wind touches it. No sunlight enters it. From above, there is only white plateau. Yet radar and seismic work revealed t…