Lake Vostok

Lake Vostok is the largest of 's 675 known subglacial lakes and the 16th largest lake in the world by area. Lake Vostok is located at the southern , beneath Russia's , under the surface of the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is at 3,488 m above mean sea level.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Body of water
  • Description: Antarctica’s largest known subglacial lake
  • Also known as: “Jezioro Wostok”, “Ozero Vostok (Lake East)”, “Vostok”, “Vostok Lake”, “Vostokjärvi”, “Восток озеро”, “Озеро Восток”, “دریاچهٔ وستوک”, “فوستوك”, “보스토크 호수”, “보스톡 호”, “ヴォストーク湖”, and “福斯多克湖”

Lake Vostok

Latitude
-77.5° or 77° 30′ south
Longitude
106° east
Elevation
3,523 metres (11,558 feet)
Open location code
2PJ8G222+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1089547695
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­subglacial_lake
Geo­Names ID
6629273
Wiki­data ID
Q152044
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Vostok” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wostokmeer”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة 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: “復斯圖湖”
  • Chinese: “沃斯托克湖”
  • Chuvash: “Тухăç”
  • Croatian: “Jezero Vostok”
  • Croatian: “Vostok”
  • Czech: “Vostok”
  • Danish: “Vostoksøen”
  • Dutch: “Vostokmeer”
  • Esperanto: “Vostok”
  • Estonian: “Vostoki järv”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Vostok Talaab”
  • Finnish: “Vostok”
  • French: “lac Vostok”
  • French: “Lac Vostok”
  • Galician: “Lago Vostok”
  • Georgian: “ვოსტოკის ტბა”
  • 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: “ボストーク湖”
  • Kölsch: “Wostoksee”
  • Korean: “보스토크호”
  • 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: “Vostoksjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vostoksjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Vostoksjøen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Vostok”
  • Persian: “دریاچه وستوک”
  • Polish: “Wostok”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Vostok”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Vostok”
  • Russian: “Oзеро Восток”
  • Russian: “Восток”
  • Russian: “Озеро Восто́к”
  • Serbian: “Jezero Vostok”
  • Serbian: “Восток”
  • Serbian: “Језеро Восток”
  • 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”
  • 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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