Earlier this week, reports emerged that a scientist at South Africa's SANAE IV Antarctic research base had accused a ...

Lake Vostok is a giant lake in Antarctica that is similar in size to North America's Lake Ontario. But unlike Lake Ontario, Lake Vostok sits beneath more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) of wind-blown ...

Russia's Vostok Base in Antarctica has opened a new winter complex, the Institute of Arctic and Antarctic Studies (AARI) said in a statement: ”A new winter complex has been put into operation at ...

The director of Russia's Antarctic program, Valery Lukin said that drilling at Antarctica's Lake Vostok stopped on Feb. 5 at a depth of 3,720.47 meters. The operation had to be halted so that the ...

One researcher at an isolated base in Antarctica fears they may be the next target of a colleague who allegedly made a threat ...

However, it was quickly confirmed that the dark patch was actually Vostok Island, one of the 33 landmasses that make up the Republic of Kiribati in the South Pacific, the BBC reported at the time. The ...

Russian scientists at the Vostok intracontinental station have collected 100 samples of space dust which will be sent to St Petersburg ...

Lake Vostok is the largest of 375 or so subglacial lakes in Antarctica. It is also the fourth deepest lake on Earth, with depths reaching 800 meters from the lake’s surface, itself covered by 2 miles ...

Current local time in Vostok (Antarctica/Vostok timezone). Get information about the Antarctica/Vostok time zone. Local time and date, DST adjusted (where ever daylight saving time is applicable) ...

On 21 July 1983, readings taken at Vostok Station, then a Soviet research station in what is now Princess Elizabeth Land, showed an unfathomably bitter -89.2°C (-128.6°F). Brutal conditions such as ...