Researchers reveal the image of the mountain which was buried under Antarctic ice. The planet's polar region is a mountainous area and equivalent to the Alps.High Peak has notched more than 8,000 feet (2400 meters). Buried under a mountain of solid ice, with a thick more than one mile (1.6 kilometers) away in east Antarctica.
The presence of mountains called the Mountain Gamburtsev Russian scientists surprised when he first discovered it 50 years ago.
Subglasial peak which has a length of nearly 750 miles (about 1200 kilometers), it continues to be a mystery.
International Polar Year at the conference in Oslo, Norway, scientists reveal new radar images, mountainous area the size of the state of New York.
"What we show is an estimate based on the previous gravity data, using a slightly coarse resolution," said Robin Bell, a senior research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia New York.
"What we showed at the meeting today is the radar data. It's like a pen to change the use of large and thick into the thin tip of a pencil."
What was disclosed from that picture says Bell, is a dramatic and spectacular landscape of rocks, deep river valleys, lakes are liquid and not frozen where it all hidden behind the ice.
"We now know that's not volcanic mountain areas," said study team member Kathryn Rose of the British Antarctic Survey.
