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Concordia Subglacial Lake is a
subglacial lake A subglacial lake is a lake that is found under a glacier, typically beneath an ice cap or ice sheet. Subglacial lakes form at the boundary between ice and the underlying bedrock, where gravitational pressure decreases the pressure melting point ...
located beneath an ice sheet thick. It has a surface of about and is deep. The surface of the water has an elevation from below the sea level. It was first located in December 1999; the name derives from the nearby French-Italian
Concordia Research Station Concordia Research Station, which opened in 2005, is a French–Italian research facility that was built above sea level at a location called Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica. It is located inland from the French research station a ...
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* Lakes of Antarctica Bodies of water of Wilkes Land {{WilkesLand-geo-stub