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Antarctica has a huge, completely hidden mountain range. New data reveals its birth over 500 million years ago

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par Jacqueline Halpin, Associate Professor of Geology, University of Tasmania
Nathan R. Daczko, Professor of Earth Science, Macquarie University

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains.

Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic Mountains, rise above the ice. But others, like the mysterious and ancient Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains in the middle of East Antarctica, are completely buried.

The Gamburtsev Mountains are similar in scale and shape to the European Alps. But we can’t see them because the high alpine peaks and…

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