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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent allegations of violence at the SANAE IV Antarctic research base highlight the urgent need to improve safety in remote and extreme places.

Other scientists had tried to delve into Antarctica’s hidden realm ... And a Russian project aimed at Lake Vostok retrieved samples bathed in kerosene from the drilling process ...

The one place that always comes up when extreme cold is discussed is Vostok Station in Antarctica. This Russian research outpost holds the record for the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth ...

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) ...

Two Russian ships: the Vostok and the Mirny are claimed by some ... with some facts about the the coldest place on Earth. Antarctica was first sighted by humans just 200 years ago.

To commemorate both of these historic flights, the Museum has put on display two 1:3 scale models of the Vostok 3KA and Mercury capsules. “The first time I looked at the models,” says Neufeld ...