A revised inventory of Antarctic subglacial lakes

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: M. J. Siegert, S. Carter, S. Popov, D. D. Blankenship, I. Tabacco
• Other Authors: M.J. Siegert, D.D. Blankenship
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Scientific Publications 2005
• Subjects: Ice sheet; Radio-echo sounding; Sub-ice water; Settore GEO/11 - Geofisica Applicata; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Lake Vostok; Dome F; New Lakes; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2434/11718; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102005002889

The locations and details of 145 Antarctic subglacial lakes are presented. The inventory is based on a former catalogue of lake-type features, which has been subsequently reanalysed, and on the results from three additional datasets. The first is from Italian radio-echo sounding (RES) of the Dome C region of East Antarctica, from which 14 new lakes are identified. These data also show that, in a number of occasions, multiple take-type reflectors thought previously to be individual lakes are in fact reflections from the same relatively large take. This reduces the former total of lake-type reflectors by six, but also adds a significant level of information to these particular lakes. The second dataset is from a Russian survey of the Dome A and Dome F regions of East Antarctica, which provides evidence of 18 new lakes and extends the coverage of the inventory considerably. The third dataset comprises three airborne RES surveys under-taken by the US in East Antarctica over the last five years, from which forty three new lakes have been identified. Reference to information on Lake Vostok, from Italian and US surveys taken in the last few years, is now included.