Lake Vostok
Lake Vostok is the largest of Antarctica's 675 known subglacial lakes and the 16th largest lake in the world by area. Lake Vostok is located at the southern Pole of Cold, beneath Russia's Vostok Station, under the surface of the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is at 3,488 m above mean sea level.- Type: Body of water
- Description: Antarctica’s largest known subglacial lake
- Also known as: “Ozero Vostok (Lake East)”, “Vostok”, and “Vostok Lake”
Lake Vostok
- Categories: rift lake and subglacial lake
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-77.5° or 77° 30′ southLongitude
106° eastElevation
3,523 metres (11,558 feet)Open location code
2PJ8G222+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 1089547695OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=subglacial_lakeGeoNames ID
6629273Wikidata ID
Q152044
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Vostok” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wostokmeer”
- Arabic: “بحيرة فوستوك”
- Arabic: “فوستوك”
- Armenian: “Վոստոկ”
- Asturian: “Llagu Vostok”
- Azerbaijani: “Vostok gölü”
- Bashkir: “Восток”
- Basque: “Vostok aintzira”
- Belarusian: “Васток”
- Bosnian: “Jezero Vostok”
- Bosnian: “Vostok”
- Bulgarian: “Восток”
- Catalan: “llac Vostok”
- Catalan: “Llac Vostok”
- Cebuano: “Vostok”
- Chinese: “Vostok Ô͘”
- Chinese: “復斯圖湖”
- Chinese: “東方湖”
- Chinese: “沃斯托克湖”
- Chinese: “福斯多克湖”
- Chuvash: “Тухăç”
- Croatian: “Jezero Vostok”
- Croatian: “Vostok”
- Czech: “Jezero Vostok”
- Czech: “Vostok”
- Danish: “Vostoksøen”
- Dutch: “Lake Vostok”
- Dutch: “Vostokmeer”
- Esperanto: “Vostok”
- Estonian: “Vostoki järv”
- Fiji Hindi: “Vostok Talaab”
- Finnish: “Vostok”
- Finnish: “Vostokjärvi”
- French: “lac Vostok”
- French: “Lac Vostok”
- Galician: “Lago Vostok”
- Georgian: “ვოსტოკის ტბა”
- German: “Lake Vostok”
- German: “Wostoksee”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Βοστόκ”
- Hebrew: “ווסטוק”
- Hindi: “वोस्टोक झील”
- Hindi: “वोस्तोक झील”
- Hungarian: “Vosztok-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Vostok”
- Italian: “lago Vostok”
- Italian: “Lago Vostok”
- Japanese: “ヴォストーク湖”
- Japanese: “ボストーク湖”
- Kölsch: “Wostoksee”
- Korean: “보스토크 호수”
- Korean: “보스토크호”
- Korean: “보스톡 호”
- Latin: “Vostok”
- Latvian: “Vostokas ezers”
- Limburgan: “Vostokmaer”
- Lithuanian: “Vostoko ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Восток”
- Macedonian: “Езеро Восток”
- Malay: “Tasik Vostok”
- Malayalam: “വോസ്തോക്ക് തടാകം”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vostok Ô͘”
- Mingrelian: “ვოსტოკი (ტობა)”
- Mingrelian: “ვოსტოკი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Vostok”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vostoksjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vostoksjøen”
- Norwegian: “Vostoksjøen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Vostok”
- Persian: “دریاچه وستوک”
- Persian: “دریاچهٔ وستوک”
- Polish: “Jezioro Wostok”
- Polish: “Wostok”
- Portuguese: “Lago Vostok”
- Romanian: “Lacul Vostok”
- Russian: “Oзеро Восток”
- Russian: “Восток озеро”
- Russian: “Восток”
- Russian: “Озеро Восток”
- Russian: “Озеро Восто́к”
- Serbian: “Jezero Vostok”
- Serbian: “Восток”
- Serbian: “Језеро Восток”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jezero Vostok”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vostok”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Језеро Восток”
- Slovak: “Vostok”
- Slovenian: “Vostok”
- Spanish: “Lago Vostok”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Vostok”
- Swedish: “Vostoksjön”
- Tamil: “வஸ்தோக் ஏரி”
- Telugu: “వొస్టోక్ సరస్సు”
- Turkish: “Vostok Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Восток”
- Ukrainian: “Озеро Восток”
- Urdu: “جھیل ووستک”
- Uzbek: “Vostok - Sharq (ko’l)”
- Uzbek: “Vostok”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Vostok”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Vostok”
- Welsh: “Llyn Vostok”
- Western Panjabi: “جھیل ووستک”
- Wu Chinese: “沃斯托克湖”
- Yue Chinese: “東方湖”
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