Researchers have discovered 56 previously uncharted subglacial lakes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet bringing the total known number of lakes to 60. The Greenland Ice Sheet covers an area approximately seven times the size of the UK, is in places more than three kilometres thick and currently plays an important role in rising global sea levels. Subglacial lakes are bodies of water that form beneath ice masses.
— source lancaster.ac.uk | Jun 26, 2019