Lake Vostok - the International Challenge

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Author: Rutford, Robert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2000
• Subjects: Geology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Antarctic; Lake Vostok; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; British Antarctic Survey; SCAR; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102000000018; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102000000018

In the last decade the notion of large subglacial lakes in Antarctica has attracted increasing attention. Lake Vostok is by far the largest of approximately 63 subglacial lakes now known in Antarctica, and the one about which most is known. The possible exploration of Lake Vostok was the subject of a very successful workshop held in Cambridge, UK, in September, 1999, sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) with the support of many others, and organized and hosted by the British Antarctic Survey.