Where Can You Hide 12 Volcanoes? (Hint: It's Big and Blue)

Here’s a reminder that we know more about the topography of Mars than that of the Earth’s ocean-covered regions and that there is much remaining to be discovered here on our home planet.

Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey, filling a gap in seabed charts near Antarctica, have found a dozen undersea volcanic cones, some the size of Mount Fuji, near the South Sandwich Islands in the far reaches of the South Atlantic Ocean. [...]

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