Scientists of the United States National Research Council have taken the position that it should be assumed that microbial life exists in Lake Vostok and that after such a long isolation, any life forms in the lake require strict protection from contamination.

* 1983 – The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at.

In 2011, documentary film maker Christopher Riley partnered with European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli to record a new film of what Gagarin would have seen of the Earth from his spaceship, by matching historical audio recordings to video from the International Space Station following the ground path taken by Vostok 1.

The coldest air temperature ever recorded on Earth is, at Vostok Station, Antarctica on 21 July 1983.

The coldest recorded average annual temperature was at Vostok Station, Antarctica.

Antarctica has the lowest temperature ever recorded: at Vostok Station.

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 above mean sea level.

The lake is named after Vostok Station, which in turn is named after the Vostok ( Восток ), a sloop-of-war, which mean " East " in Russian.

Russian geographer Andrey Kapitsa used seismic soundings in the region of Vostok Station made during the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1959 and 1964 to measure the thickness of the ice sheet.

The lake is named after Vostok Station, which in turn is named after the Vostok ( Восток ), the 900 ton sloop-of-war sailed by one of the discoverers of Antarctica, Russian explorer Admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen.

Vostok Station

The coldest temperature ever observed on Earth,, was recorded at Vostok Station on 21 July 1983.

Ice core s drilled at Vostok Station, which is seen in the background

Researchers working at Vostok Station produced one of the world's longest ice cores in 1998.

* Vostok Station, Russian ( originally Soviet ) Antarctic research station

* Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake in Antarctica, located beneath Vostok Station

Antarctica has the lowest naturally occurring temperature ever recorded on the ground on Earth: − 89. 2 ° C (− 128. 6 ° F ) at Vostok Station.

The lowest reliably measured temperature on Earth of was in Vostok on 21 July 1983 at Vostok Station.

Levels of gases in the atmosphere in 420, 000 years of ice core data from Vostok Station | Vostok, Antarctica research station.

The lowest natural temperature ever recorded at the surface of the Earth was at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.

Averaging at least 1. 6 km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2. 5 km below sea level ; subglacial lakes of liquid water also occur ( e. g., Lake Vostok ).

Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis (" Southern Land ") date back to antiquity, the first confirmed sighting of the continent of Antarctica is commonly accepted to have occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on Vostok and Mirny.

* 06: 10 UT The payload shroud covering Vostok 1 is released.

* 06: 13 UT The rocket is still firing, pushing Vostok 1 toward orbit.

I'm continuing the flight ..." Vostok 1 is moving further downrange from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Vostok 1 is nearing the VHF radio horizon for Khabarovsk and they respond, " Repeat.

" Vostok 1 passes out of VHF range of the Khabarovsk ground station and contact is lost.

The sun-seeking attitude control system is used to orient Vostok 1 for retrofire.

" They tell Gagarin that Vostok 1 is in a stable orbit.

* 06: 57 UT Vostok 1 is over the South Pacific between New Zealand and Chile when Gagarin sends this message, "... I'm continuing the flight, and I'm over America.

News of the Vostok 1 mission is broadcast on Radio Moscow.

* 07: 10 UT Passing over the South Atlantic, the Sun rises and Vostok 1 is in daylight again.

Vostok 1 is 15 minutes from retrofire.

The Vostok 1 re-entry capsule is now on display at the RKK Energiya museum in Korolyov, near Moscow.

Around 60 % of Space Shuttle astronauts currently experience it on their first flight ; the first case is now suspected to be Gherman Titov, in August 1961 onboard Vostok 2, who reported dizziness and nausea.

* Vostok Island, located in the south of Kiribati's Line Islands

Crater Lake is often cited as the seventh deepest lake in the world, but this ranking excludes Lake Vostok, which is situated under nearly of Antarctic ice, and the recent soundings of San Martín Lake, which is located on the border of Chile and Argentina.

Crater Lake is often referred to as the seventh deepest lake in the world, but this former listing excludes the approximately depth of subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica, which resides under nearly of ice, and the recent report of a maximum depth for Lake O ' Higgins / San Martin, located on the border of Chile and Argentina.

Vostok is located near the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility and the South Geomagnetic Pole, making it one of the optimal places to observe changes in the Earth's magnetosphere.

Vostok is located at, and covers a land area of 24 hectares.

Flint Island is located about 740 kilometers ( 400 nautical miles ) northwest of Tahiti, 190 km ( 100 nautical miles ) south-southeast of Vostok Island, and 220 km ( 120 nautical miles ) southwest of Caroline Island.

* Vostok is the most isolated research base on the continent ( located at ), and it is situated over the southernmost lake in the world, Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake 4, 000 metres ( 13, 000 feet ) under the surface of the ice where the station sits.

In the Southern Hemisphere, the Pole of Cold is currently located in Antarctica, at the Russian ( formerly Soviet ) Antarctic station Vostok at.

Vostok is located roughly 1200 meters south of Endurance in Meridiani Planum.

Erebus is located roughly 2, 500 meters south of the much smaller crater Vostok, which was previously visited by Opportunity.

Increases in CO < sub > 2 </ sub > and CH < sub > 4 </ sub > concentrations in the Vostok core are similar for the last two glacial-interglacial transitions, even though only the most recent transition is located in the brittle zone.