Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

This is due to the Mercator Projection, a map type dating ... An even more extreme example would be Antarctica. Despite ...

Researchers have unveiled the most detailed map of Antarctica's bedrock yet. | Credit: Pritchard et al., Scientific Data (2025). Creative Commons. Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map ...

Antarctica is a special ... These different map representations are called projections. Oh hello! I’m just working out where I am by using this world, er…globe to give it its proper name.

The British Antarctic Survey led the study and the results were published in the journal Scientific Data. As the name of the map implies, this is the third effort to illustrate Antarctica’s rock ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...