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The UK’s tallest mountain is underwater

Uw mountain

Scientists have just returned from a deep sea exploration of four underwater mountains off the west coast of Scotland. The survey is known as The Deep Links project and is a collaboration between Plymouth University, the University of Oxford, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and the British Geological Survey. What they found was an underwater realm teaming with life and many species that have yet to be scientifically described.

The team spent six weeks at sea. The largest underwater mountain they explored, at 1700 m high, is called the Anton Dohrn.

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