Exposing Antarcticas "ghost mountains"

Posted on Tuesday, December 22 - 2009

Under the vast ice sheets of Antarctica there exists an extensive mountain range entirely encompassed in the ice. Now an international team of scientists who have surveyed the areahave released a first glimpse of their results."Scientists who mapped one of the most enigmatic mountain ranges on Earth have given a first glimpse of their data.

An international team spent two months in 2008/9 surveying the Gamburtsevs in Antarctica- a series of peaks totally buried under the ice cap. "

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