Amusing Coincidences:
I was just reading about a team
of Russian scientist's break through in Antarctica's Lake Vostok, and
enjoying the coincidence of having posted on polar
expeditions and the Antarctic Alph river (named after Coleridge's),
relating its secret subglacial connections to what B.Boyd pointed out
concerning Judge Goldsworth's wardrobe and Zembla's secret passage
The list of micro-organisms, initially
identified as "alpha, beta, gamma," mentioned in connection to lake
Vostok was also fun to relate to Goldsworth's alphabetical
family...
..Russians "close" to drilling into Antarctica's Lake Vostok.Scientists
reportedly reach lake hidden for millions of years
Cf. one of the offered links:
| Russian scientists just breached
Antarctica's Lake Vostok (which has been isolated for 20 million years):
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http://t.co/WBqoxsJY |
Polar lakes and rivers: limnology of Arctic and
Antarctic aquatic ...
books.google.com.br/books?isbn=0199213895...
Warwick F.
Vincent, Johanna Laybourn-Parry - 2008 - Fiction
The strains belonged to the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma subclasses of the ...
LakeVostok, the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica, is separated from the
surface by ...