Alps-sized mountain range found in Antarctic ice

JAGGED mountains the size of the Alps have been found entombed in Antarctica’s ice, scientists said yesterday.

The discovery provides new clues about the vast ice sheet that will raise world sea levels if even a fraction of it melts.

Using radar and gravity sensors, experts made the first detailed maps of the Gamburtsev subglacial mountains, first detected by scientists 50 years ago at the heart of the east Antarctic ice sheet.