What's Hidden Under Antarctica's Ice? #Shorts

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]What is really hidden beneath the ice of Antarctica that shocked the scientists when they saw it? Actually, when drilling was done here, it was found that this ice is not 100 or 200 m thick, but a full 4 km thick. And beneath it, a completely different ecosystem exists.

[00:00:13]It is filled with water, which has still not frozen because of the heat coming from the Earth's core. One of the biggest lakes [music] in the world is also present here, Lake Vostok. And not just that, here there are tall mountains like the Himalayas, canyons, and even more than 100 volcanoes. Because millions of years ago, Antarctica [music] was connected to India and Africa and was part of a supercontinent.

[00:00:33]But then slowly it drifted away from all [music] the continents and finally froze at the South Pole.