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Nature Geoscience 1, 809–816 (1 December 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo367

Glaciology: Water slide

Helen Amanda Fricker

Subglacial floods in Antarctica were discovered only three years ago. Although it has long been accepted that lakes exist beneath the Antarctic ice sheet — the first subglacial lake was found in the 1950s — the assumption that most lakes were stagnant persisted until 2005.