A Windracers drone has been assisting scientists from the British Antarctic Survey to collect data on previously unchartered ...

Buried under miles of ice, Antarctica's mysterious mountain ranges are coming into sharper focus thanks to a new map. Surface Ice Created by the British Antarctic Survey, Bedmap2 drew upon ...

Antarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic. Beneath its frozen surface sits a solid continent of mountains, rocky terrain, and gold-spewing volcanoes. This hidden world has now ...

The map gives us a remarkably clear view of the bed, including frozen mountains and canyons. Besides generally interesting in its own right, this information is also a vital component of ongoing ...

The map, called Bedmap3, gives a clear view of the towering mountains and deep canyons hidden by the ice sheets. It was compiled using more than 60 years of data from planes, satellites, ships and ...

Significantly, the map revealed icy ridges that help to naturally stabilize ice flow across and around the Transantarctic Mountains, some of the oldest and most expansive mountains in Antarctica.

Removing the 27 million cubic km of ice that covers Antarctica, the hidden locations of the tallest mountains are revealed. Credit: Scientific Data (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-04672-y × close ...

Without its 27 million cubic km of ice, Antarctica’s tallest mountains emerge from hiding. This view comes from the latest Bedmap3 dataset by Pritchard, H., et al. (BAS) ...

Researchers have probed the depths under Antarctic ice to reveal a map of the Gamburtsev Mountains (see inset to the right); Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation, Gamburtsev topography ...