“We want to be the first to do this in order to give Russian names to the lakes,” RIA Novosti quoted Makarov as saying at a briefing.
He noted that in the absence of an application, any foreign organization will be able to do it.
According to him, Russian scientists have "the excitement of the pioneers."
On April 4, Makarov spoke about the conclusions that scientists came to by studying the ice of Antarctica, which is several hundred thousand years old.