Vostok station was settled during the IGY on the East Antarctic plateau by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition and was opened on 16 December 1957 (Figure 1). For the image and prestige of this …

In this paper we take a very simple data-driven view to answer this question, and we use the publicly available Epica-Vostok Ice Core datasets which stretch back some 800,000 years and specifically …

The recent completion of drilling at Vostok station in East Antarctica has allowed the extension of the ice record of atmospheric composition and climate to the past four glacial–interglacial cycles.

The Vostok accreted ice offered the ®rst opportunity for aquatic biologists to investigate material derived from a subglacial lake. Several studies have shown that the accreted ice contains bacteria (Fig. …

The Vostok ice core extracted >200 m of ice accreted from the lake to the ice sheet base. Analysis of this ice has given valuable insights into the lake’s biological and chemical setting.

The recent completion of drilling at Vostok station in East Antarctica has allowed the extension of the ice record of atmospheric composition and climate to the past four glacial–interglacial cycles.

Lake Vostok accretion ice contains nucleic acids from a diverse set of organisms, including sequences from anaerobic, aerobic, psychrophilic, thermophilic, halophilic, alkaliphilic, acidophilic, aquatic, …