Books and articles:

Nature, 20th June 1996
Discovery of Lake Vostok - a large deep freshwater lake beneath the ice of central East Antarctica - Kapitsa et al.

Scientific American, October 1999
Article on Europa, including a section on Lake Vostok.

New Scientist, 4th December 1999
Lake of Dreams - an article about Lake Vostok.

American Scientist, November - December 1999
Antarctica's Lake Vostok by Martin Siegert - a review of all the information about the lake.

External web-links:

Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge
A good general link for Antarctica-related research and news.
www.spri.cam.ac.uk

Byrd Polar Research Centre (Ohio State University)
Possibly the leading collection of Antarctica-based web links.
http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu

NASA articles about Europa and Lake Vostok. science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast09sep99_1.htm astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/stories/europa_vostok_0899.html

Background briefing paper on Lake Vostok. www.ldeo.columbia.edu/vostok/index.html

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory web page.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/

The British Antarctic Survey
High Cross Site
Madingley Road
Cambridge
CB3 0ET
United Kingdom
www.antarctica.ac.uk


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