Lake Vida

Lake Vida

Lake Vida is a hypersaline lake in Victoria Valley, the northernmost of the large McMurdo Dry Valleys, on the continent of Antarctica. It is isolated under year-round ice cover, and is considerably more saline than seawater. It came to public attention in 2002 when microbes frozen in its ice cover for more than 2,800 years were successfully thawed and reanimated.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake Vida
• Coghlan, A., 2012, Lake life survives in total isolation for 3000 years, New Scientist, v. 216, p. 10.