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 ...

Antarctica has more than 400 lakes hiding beneath its sprawling ice sheets. The largest of these, locked beneath East Antarctica, is Lake Vostok, covering an expanse of 4,826 square miles (12,500sq km ...

NEIL SHUBIN: People who study ice, glaciologists, were looking at the ice, and they found one area around Vostok Station ... but under the ice lies a lake the size of Lake Ontario, with freshwater, ...

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However, it was quickly confirmed that the dark patch was actually Vostok Island, one of the 33 landmasses that make up the Republic of Kiribati in the South Pacific, the BBC reported at the time.

The last time a spaceflight had only females on board was the solo flight by Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova who became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963 on the Vostok 6 mission.