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In the early 1990s, an international team of researchers were drilling at the Vostok research station to obtain cores to study clues to past climate in ice that has been accumulating for millions of years.
The previous record low was -89.2C in 1983 at the Russian Vostok research station in east Antarctica.
No doubt, though perhaps not as quite cool as the record set at the Vostok research station deep inside the Antarctic interior on July 21 , 1983
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The discovery gives a first glimpse of how life may have survived in an ecosystem cut off from the rest of the world for a million years Vostok Station, a Russian research outpost in the heart of Antarctica, sits atop a glacier nearly 4 kilometers thick.
In addition to UNICEF Ukraine support, the performances were conducted with the support of local partners, including Terre des Hommes, NGO 'Station Kharkiv', Ukrainian Red Cross Society, CF "Inva SOS Vostok", Kharkiv Foundation of Psychological Researches, NGO Slaviansk Serdtsee'.
Lake Vostok, named after the Russian research station above it, is the largest of more than 280 lakes under the miles-thick ice that covers most of the Antarctic continent, and the first one to have a drill bit break through to liquid water from the ice that has kept it sealed off from light and air for somewhere between 15 million and 34 million years.
(Incidentally, the record coldest temperature measured on Earth was at the Russian South Pole research station of Vostok, Antarctica (-128.6 deg. F) on July 21 , 1983.
Other Antarctic stations are just as isolated as Concordia and offer different experiences and opportunities for research, including Russia's Vostok station, America's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and also, possibly, the British Antarctic Survey's Halley Station.
Related sites A video of Vostok exploration, from NSF Satellite pictures of Vostok and Antarctica Studinger's Lake Vostok home page.
The icy lake, called Lake Vostok, lies under Russia's Vostok Station in central Antarctica.
The researchers have been studying samples brought up from Vostok - the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica.
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