TY - JOUR AU - Cafarella , Lili AU - Urbini , Stefano AU - Bianchi , Cesidio AU - Zirizzotti , Achille AU - Tabacco , Ignazio E. AU - Forieri , Alessandro PY - 2006/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Five subglacial lakes and one of Antarctica’s thickest ice covers newly determined by radio echo sounding over the Vostok–Dome C region JF - Polar Research JA - POLAR VL - 25 IS - 1 SE - Letters-to-the-editor DO - 10.3402/polar.v25i1.6239 UR - https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2039 SP - 69-73 AB - Radio echo sounding (RES) measurements were collected from 1995 to 2003 during Italian Antarctic expeditions over the Vostok–Dome C region. The data collected allow for the reconstruction of a bedrock elevation map between the Belgica Highlands and the Aurora Subglacial Basin (112.0° - 124.0° E; 74.0° - 78.0° S). Moreover, analysis of the RES data has revealed one of the thickest ice covers in Antarctica (4755 ± 16 m; 118.321° E, 76.059° S) as well as fi ve new subglacial lakes. ER -