The Vostok Station. Built in December 1957, amid the Second Soviet Antarctic Expedition, Russia’s Vostok Research Station is located almost at the very center of mainland Antarctica.Its location is ...

Beneath Russia's Vostok Station on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS), approximately 2.5 miles deep and sitting at an ...

The Vostok Station, perched atop the Antarctic ice shield at a lofty 3,488m, endures some of Earth's most extreme weather conditions. With an average annual temperature that makes it the coldest ...

Until the mid-1990s, nobody knew there was a lake two miles under Antarctica's icy Vostok Station. Now Lake Vostok is understood to hold more water than almost any other lake in the world. On ...

Staff have been transferred to another Russian base, at Mirny on the Antarctic coast. Vostok will be reactivated in November, in the Antarctic spring. Cold spot. At the very centre of the Antarctic ...

Located approximately 2.5 miles beneath Russia’s Vostok Station on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS), which sits at 3,488 metres above mean sea level, lies the largest of the continent’s 675 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday said that his country’s southernmost Vostok research station in Antarctica is “one of the most modern and well-equipped” in the continent, as he ...

Less than 1,000 miles away from the South Pole, the research station is on bitterly cold terrain that in 1983 was home to Earth’s record-low air temperature: minus-128.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

At Vostok station, scientists from the 70th Russian Antarctic Expedition of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute began testing meteorological equipment to launch automated observations at the ...

Scientists say they have completed the first experiment on growing watermelons in the coldest place on Earth. August is the coldest winter month at the arctic station Vostok, when temperatures ...

The Vostok Station, perched atop the Antarctic ice shield at a lofty 3,488m, endures some of Earth's most extreme weather conditions. With an average annual temperature that makes it the coldest ...