Gamburtsev Mountain Range

Gamburtsev Mountain Range

Geobox | Range
name=Gamburtsev Mountain Range
country=Antarctica
region=East Antarctica
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highest_elevation=3400
highest_lat_d=80|highest_lat_m=30|highest_lat_s=00|highest_lat_NS=S
highest_long_d=76|highest_long_m=00|highest_long_s=00|highest_long_EW=E


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map_caption=The Gamburtsev Mountain Range (also known as the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains) is a subglacial mountain range located in Eastern Antarctica, near Dome A, and is completely covered with snow and ice.cite news | author = Jonathan Amos | title = Survey targets 'ghost' mountains | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6145642.stm | publisher = BBC | date = 2006-12-13 | accessdate = 2006-12-15] The range is named after Soviet geophysicist Grigoriy A. Gamburtsev,cite web| url = http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=2515| title = Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains| accessdate = 2006-12-15| author = Australian Antarctic Data Centre | date = 2000-01-01| publisher =Australian Government, Antarctic Division] and was discovered three years after his death in 1958 by the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition. [cite web| url = http://www.aari.ru/south/publication/avsyuk/avsyuk.html| title = 20 лет открытию Полюса недоступности Антарктиды: Метеорология и Гидрология. 1979, №3. Гидрометеоиздат.| accessdate = 2007-01-26| publisher =Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute| language = Russian] It is approximately 1200 km long, and the highest point is about 3,400 metres from base to point, although it is completely covered by over 600 m of ice and snow. Gamburtsev Mountain Range is currently believed to be about the same size as the European Alps, and, as of 2008, it is unknown how the mountains were formed. "Computer modelling suggests these great peaks were a nucleation point some 30 million years ago for the huge ice sheets now covering the continent" (quoted from BBC article cited below).

In preparation for the 2007-09 International Polar Year, a multinational project is being launched to gather information on the mountains.cite web| url = http://www.ipy.org/development/eoi/details.php?id=934| title =The Gamburtsev Mountains: Integrated International Exploration of the Earths Most Enigmatic Mountain Range | accessdate = | author = Bryan C. Storey| date = 2006-03-23| publisher = International Polar Year]

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External links

* [http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42377000/gif/_42377276_antarctic_map2416.gifMap of Antarctica, showing Dome A and the Gamburtsev Mountain Range]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6145642.stm A BBC article about the mountain range]


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