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City-sized lake found miles below Antarctica’s biggest ice sheet

cientists have discovered a city-sized lake hidden deep underneath the world’s largest ice sheet, and it could unlock the secrets of the sheet’s 34-million-year history. The hidden lake – which has been named Lake Snow Eagle after one of the Chinese aircraft that discovered it – lies in a mile-deep canyon beneath two

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