Magnetic Anomaly In Antarctica

Antony writes: "Scientists have discovered a huge magnetic anomaly in the Australian claim area of Antarctica - a vast unseen freshwater lake that has been isolated from the rest of the planet for millions of years. The Antarctic Sun online newspaper reported that the freshwater reservoir, Lake Vostok, was the centre of an environmental debate as Amercian scientists, led by NASA, wanted to drill into the lake three to four kilometers under the ice. The Antarctic Sun says the evidence is a huge magnetic anomaly on the east coast of the lake's shoreline." I thought the article about Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty monitoring in Antarctica was more interesting...

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Cue Strauss.

[babbage]

"Scientists have discovered a huge magnetic anomaly..."

Fancy that, just over a month into 2001 and we dig up a "magnetic anomaly" in some remote place. Anyone wanna bet that we'll find a huge shrieking black monolith at the center of it?

;)

Old News.. sorry

[Xunker]

Sad to say, but the existence of Lake Vostok has been known for at least 18 months, and has been assumed to exist for much longer.

Though I have to admit the prospect of a virgin body of untouched water the size of Ontario is a very cool thing to contemplate.

American Scientist noted the lake in 1999, as did SCAR and Earth Sciences News -- ESN also talks about some 'microbes' found near/in it, and they have a telling graphic of the lakes' actual size. Cool stuff.