'Ghost peaks' mapped under Antarctic ice

[dipsydoodle]

Scientists have completed their mission to map one of the most extraordinary mountain ranges on Earth.

The Gamburtsevs are a set of peaks equal in size to the European Alps, but they are hidden deep under the ice in the middle of the Antarctic continent.

The survey data gathered by the multi-national team working in harsh, sub-zero temperatures will help resolve the mystery of why the range exists at all.

Their presence, when first discovered in the 1950s, was totally unexpected.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7908824.stm

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

1. Suggested reading

"At the Mountains of Madness", a short novel by HP Lovecraft.

[dipsydoodle]

2. I read most of his stuff

back in the sixties but don't recall that one.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

5. Really creepy, if not dated

tale of scientists discovering the remains of a massive, pre-human civilization in a remote mountain range of Antarctica, and coming to the hair-whitening realization that humanity and all life on Earth descended from the abandoned amoeboid slaves of the creepy aliens who lived there.

[OKIsItJustMe]

3. Dup

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=188059&mesg_id=188059

[dipsydoodle]

4. Hadn't realised that

perhaps the Mods could move this.

edit to say thanks.