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Nature 440, 1000-1001 (20 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/4401000a; Published online 19 April 2006

Glaciology: Ice-sheet plumbing in Antarctica

Garry K. C. Clarke1

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It's not easy to work out what is going on beneath four kilometres of ice. But remote imaging has enabled the discovery of the long-distance discharge of water from one subglacial lake to another in Antarctica.

It is old news that there are lakes under the Antarctic ice sheet1 — indeed, Earth's seventh largest lake, Lake Vostok2, lies deep beneath the Antarctic ice. But are the lakes that form beneath great ice sheets long-lived and stable, collecting and spilling water at a steady rate?

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