Researchers have discovered what may be a giant lake buried beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet. Satellite imagery shows linear grooves that are usually a telltale sign of being created from the outflows of a lake. The grooves appear to be spread out over 600 miles toward the east coast of Antarctica on Princess Elizabeth Land, between Vestfold Hills and the West Ice Shelf. It is conveniently located close to the Russian Vostok research station. Professor Martin Siegert co-director of the Grantham Institute at Imperial College in London leads the Lake Ellsworth Consortium –AUK-NERC funded program that "aims to explore a large subglacial lake beneath the ice shelf of West Antarctica." He says, "We've seen these strange, linear channels on the surface, and are inferring these are above massive, 1,000 kilometer long channels and there's a relatively large subglacial lake there, too." In size, this new ribbon-shaped lake, 60 miles long and 6 miles wide, would be only second in size to