'Vostok Welcomes You' reads this sign at Vostok Station, Antarctica, one of the least hospitable places on Earth. (Michael Studinger/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/KRT/Newscom/File)
© RIA Novosti. Alexandr SolovskiyAfter decades of drilling , Russian scientists have finally managed to pierce through Antarctica’s ice sheet to reveal the secrets of a unique sub-glacial lake, Vostok, that has been sealed there for the past 20 million years, a scientific source said on Monday.
“Yesterday, our scientists stopped drilling at the depth of 3,768 meters and reached the surface of the sub-glacial lake,” the source said.
Explorers hope Lake Vostok, which is the largest of Antarctica's buried network of icebound lakes and also one of the largest lakes in the world, could reveal new forms of life and show how life evolved before the ice age.
The discovery of the hidden lakes of Antarctica in the 1990s sparked much enthusiasm among scientists all over the world. Some think the ice cap above and at the edges have created a hydrostatic seal with the surface that has prevented lake water from escaping or anything else from getting inside.
Lake Vostok could also offer a glimpse of what conditions exist for life in similar extreme conditions on Mars and Jupiter’s moon, Europa, according to RedOrbit scientific news portal.
Explorers from the United States and Britain are following the trail of their Russia’s colleagues with their own missions to probe other hidden Arctic lakes, which are among the last of the world’s hidden and unexplored areas.
With the current events happening at Lake Vostok, an old theory saying that German Nazis may have built a secret base there as early as the 1930s, has resurfaced.
It is thought that towards the end of the Second World War, the Nazis moved to the South Pole and started constructing a base at Lake Vostok. In 1943, Grand Admiral Karl Dontiz was quoted saying “Germany's submarine fleet is proud that it created an unassailable fortress for the Fuehrer on the other end of the world,” in Antarctica.
According to German naval archives, months after Germany surrendered to the Allies in April, 1945, the German submarine U-530 arrived at the South Pole from the Port of Kiel. Crewmembers constructed an ice cave and supposedly stored several boxes of relics from the Third Reich, including Hitler’s secret files.
It is also rumored that later the submarine U-977 delivered the remains of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun to Antarctica for DNA cloning purposes.
The subs then entered the Argentinean port of Mar-del-Plata and surrendered to authorities.
Sources: en.ria.nu & csmonitor.com
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you're right Andy .... ;) i am pretty sure that Vatican would have more info then just about Atlantis alone, i've heard that some part of Vatican library is open to the 'public', but not for the tourists i guess .... lol .... oh well .... ;)
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no problem, perhaps you'll enjoy reading this as well: Arkaim; Russia's Ancient City ....
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/arkaim-russias-ancient-city... and
http://forums.atlantisrising.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get...
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ok SUPPOSEDLY the story is the germans had found an entrance to inner earth in antarctica and worked with the agarthans to develop technology , the american admiral Byrd has also reportedly found an entrance to inner earth at the north pole so was recruited to go to the south pole and see what the germans were up to, byrd and the 3000 men never returned.
there was a base there in antarctica
there possibly is boullion hidden in a cave there in a sub
the remains of hitler and braun were NOT taken there or at least not immediately, after ww2 hitlers body was identified by dental records, except he had false teeth and body doubles, look at the pics of "dead" hitler and youll see it aint him, and dentures dont verify bodies.
the SUPPOSED story is that before the end of the war he was taken to south america in a sub. of which there is another story where there is a underground city there with german peole in it somewhere in south america possibly brazilian rainforest, but they come out everyonce in a while for supplies and were contacted at some point.
the surrendering of several subs a few weeks after ww2 ended are in fact documented, however their whereabout from the time they claimed to have left port are still under scrutiny and there is no agreed story to what they were doing and where they went while theywere hiding
this link is interesting too: http://greyfalcon.us/restored/Vostok.htm
this actually had new information for me thank you, the magnetic information to be specific