Antarctic Lakes

• Main Author: Hodgson, Dominic A.
• Other Authors: Bengtsson, Lars, Herschy, Reginald W., Fairbridge, Rhodes W.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2012
• Subjects: Hydrology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Greenland; Vostok Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice cap; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/531947/; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4410-6_38

The Antarctic continent, including its ice shelves, has an area of 13.8 million km2, about half the size of North America and 1.3 times the size of Europe. It is also the highest, windiest, coldest, and driest of the continents. Almost the entire land surface of Antarctica is covered by a vast ice c...