That's a potential concern of the enhanced melt in west Antarctica if the warming trend we find in summer continues.

BBC: West Antarctic Ice Sheet warming twice earlier estimate

This is evident, for example, in the rapid thinning seen of late in the mighty Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica.

BBC: Antarctic ice volume measured

There are also proposals to explore and sample Lake Ellsworth in west Antarctica by a team involving 14 UK universities and research institutions, plus scientists from Chile, the US, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and New Zealand.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Secret rivers found in Antarctic

White Desert founder Patrick Woodhead, who led the very first east-to-west traverse of Antarctica in 2002, envisioned the camp on one of his many expeditions.

BBC: Camp with penguins in Antarctica

Several hours from the South Pole, in the barren expanses of western Antarctica, a small team of American researchers has just finished their second field-season with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core project.

ECONOMIST: The South Pole as location and metaphor