The world's most mysterious mountain range is nowhere to be seen on a map. Many popular maps are used to understand different parts of the earth in which the world looks smooth. One of them is 'Mercator Projection' but you can't see this mountain range here.

The world's most mysterious mountain range is nowhere to be seen on a map

The world's most mysterious mountain range is nowhere to be seen on a map

Similarly, the Peters projection is an even more popular and accurate alternative map, but even here you will not find this mountain range.

The plastic axle at the North Pole hides it in the rotating map and it looks like nothing worth seeing here.

But this is where you'll find the Lamanusovo ridge. It begins in Siberia, passes through Greenland, and extends to Canada.

It is spread over 1700 km. Its highest point is at an altitude of 3.4 km above sea level.

This mountain range is not very popular but it has become the center of the dispute between the three countries which are claiming their right to the sea area around the North Pole.

According to Denmark, the mountain range is part of its autonomous region of Greenland. According to Russia, the area is part of a Siberian island. And according to Canada, it is part of the island of Alzheimer's.

So whose word is closer to reality?

This first area was discovered by the Soviet Union in 1948 during an initial search of the Arctic capital. From their tent on sea ice, Soviet scientists discovered that the depth of water on the new Siberian islands to the north was shallow.

From here it is known that the sea is divided into two parts by a mountain. Scientists used to think that there is a continuous basin in the ocean.

In 1954, scientists published a map showing the undersea mountain range. He named it after the 18th-century Russian poet Mikhail Lamanov, who predicted such features in the Arctic basin nearly 200 years ago.

This is its main feature today. More than 70 years after the mountain was discovered, it is still one of the worst sea levels to appear on maps worldwide.

Even today's modern ships throw powerful singles into the waters of the Arctic, but only a few hundred meters from the mountain has been discovered. It's like looking at the athletes' tracks from side to side.

Because there is not much information on the charts about this area, there are always new things coming up in new maps.

"It's like wearing a new pair of spectacles every time," said Paula Treoglini, head of the Arctic team from Canada. You never know what you're going to find. "

But to understand how this mountain range formed, it is not enough to map the valley of the peak and the mountain range. Three countries claim this large area.

To understand this, scientists have to get a small piece of the mountain. This rock will reveal the geological basis of the mountain.

Difficult evidence

Christine Nidson is a geophysicist for geological surveys in Denmark and Greenland. He was the first person to get a big rock from this mountain.

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Politicians from Canada and Russia have also examined the rocks of this mountain range. But it is difficult to know if they really got the rock from the mountain. Because it is possible that they are looking at the surrounding rocks instead of the mountain that came from somewhere.

Due to the layers of ice on the shores of the Arctic, there are many types of rocks lying on the surface of the Arctic. The "fallen rock" may have come from a snowy mountain in Siberia. Or the rock may have accidentally fallen on the mountain while traveling from northern Canada. That way the results can be inaccurate.

Hundreds of meters to thousands of kilometers of mountain range rocks can be difficult to find in the water, and even when the ocean floor is frozen. Getting there is hard work.

Nidson and his colleagues used a Russian ice-breaking machine powered by nuclear energy. They used it to break the Arctic ice. A similar Swedish Odin machine was also used. Danish researchers were also present in the staff.

Nidson's team managed to cover the mountain for three kilometers. They also carried an orange stone that was as big as a rugby ball.

"Initially, no one paid attention to this narcissistic and khaki stone," he said. But I wanted to know what it was. So we started cutting it. "

What was found inside was not expected. Lines were drawn on each layer like a tree. These layers contained large amounts of manganese oxide which is found at sea level where many such substances are present.

It takes thousands of years to form. This indicates that it is a rock, not a fallen rock.

Nidson named the rock age using beryllium 9 and 10 (radioactive isotopes). Beryllium is formed on 10 stratosphere ie 50 km above the ground. It converts to beryllium 9 after radiation. From the ratio of the two, Nidson could determine the age of the stone.

From the many layers of this rock they came to know that its history is 8 million years old. The innermost layer was the oldest while the outer layer was the newest.

According to Nidson, this proves that the rock has been present in the polar basin for 8 million years. It is even older than the Ice Age.