Seamounts—submarine mountains that rise from the depths of the ocean—are crucial to the creatures that undertake long sea voyages. Ocean with David Attenborough is now streaming on Disney and Hulu. | National Geographic TV

1.6K views · 52 reactions | Marine mammals and habitat are able to thrive in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument thanks to the conservation efforts. Now, imagine if we could do the same across all our oceans. | NRDC | Facebook

In the Southeast Pacific, off the coast of Chile, underwater mountains create a breathtaking deep-sea landscape where cold-water corals, intricate glass sponges, anemones, and a host of creatures that captivate the imagination are thriving. Nearly half of the animals living here exist nowhere else on Earth. Seamounts are oases for biodiversity; for the last month, an international team of scientists explored this understudied region in our global ocean. Data and imagery collected on the #SEPacif