There is a mountain range in Antarctica that no one has ever seen directly:
the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, an Alpine-scale range buried beneath
kilometres of East Antarctic ice. Unexpectedly detected by a Soviet seismic
expedition in 1958, the range puzzled scientists for decades because its
sharp peaks and deep valleys look geologically young, even though they sit
in one of the oldest and most stable parts of the continent.
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Somewhere beneath the highest point of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, near a
region called Dome A, stands a mountain range comparable in scale to the
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