Frozen Treasures Found In The Depths Of Antarctica

As far as mysterious places go, Antarctica has a lot going for it, including a ton of frozen treasures and fascinating surprises just waiting to be discovered. Here are some of the craziest frozen treasures found in Antarctica.

Antarctica is a remote enough chunk of the Earth as it is, but the speckle of tiny Antarctic islands surrounding the continent is ridiculously remote. Some of these islands are almost impossible to get a plane to fly over, let alone land on. One of these remote islands is Saunders Island, situated around 1,000 miles off the eastern edge of Antarctica's coastline, and researchers analyzing high-resolution South Pole satellite imagery spotted something unusual about Mount Michael, the largest mountain on Saunders Island.

Usually, the mountain is covered in a dense blanket of cloud. However, very occasionally, the skies clear over Saunders Island. On one of those rare days, satellite imagery revealed an unexpected glowing orange patch at the mountain's peak.

Yes, it's a huge lake of bubbling lava. As far as we know, only seven other similar lava lakes exist on Earth. Not surprisingly, geologists are keen to learn more about this odd mountain at the end of the world, but it'll likely be several years before a surveillance aircraft can get there to take a closer look.

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Microbes | 1:10
Remnants of a supercontinent | 1:54
Giant spiders | 2:36
Ancient fossil forests | 3:16
A big hole | 4:08
A bloody waterfall | 4:56
A giant monster | 5:50
Oil | 6:51
A mysterious structure | 7:55
Robert Falcon Scott | 9:10
A skull | 10:03

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