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 ...

Part of a Colorado State University lecture series on the Antarctic, the lecture “Exploration of the Transantarctic Mountains” is free and open to the public. It will be at the Old Town ...

The ancient Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains in the middle of East Antarctica are entombed beneath kilometres of ice Breakthrough after mysterious mountain range found buried beneath Antarctica’s ice ...

In a new book, longtime geologist Edmund Stump presents stunning photographs of Earth's most inaccessible mountain range: the Transantarctic Mountains. Stump took the photos during 30 years of ...

Marine diatom fossils in the Transantarctic Mountains have long puzzled scientists. Researchers wondered how these fossilized algae ended up in the Antarctic mountains and many were divided ...

A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and University of Colorado Boulder thermochronologist Jeff Benowitz advances the understanding of the geologic history of ...

The 3,000-kilometer-long Transantarctic Mountains are a dominant feature of the Antarctic continent, yet up to now scientists have been unable to adequately explain how they formed. In a new study ...

Researchers reveal a dynamic geologic past for Antarctica’s Transantarctic Mountains, uncovering ancient mountain-building and glaciation events hidden beneath the ice. A new study led by University ...

This is Mount Kirkpatrick in the Transantarctic mountains, 4 kilometres above sea level and just 600 kilometres from the South Pole . The skeleton, a cryolophosaurus or “frozen crested lizard ...