Lake Vostok
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Lake Vostok is the biggest of the seventy lakes in Antarctica that are under the ice. It is at 77° S 105° E and it is under Russia's Vostok Station. It is also 4000 meters (13,000 feet) under Antarctica's surface.
The lake was found by Russian and British scientists. They used an object called a radar to find it.
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- "Miles Below Antarctic Ice, a Freshwater Lake May Harbor Ancient Life." Robert Lee Hotz, The Los Angeles Times.