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Social media users and conspiracy theorists are claiming a new pyramid has been discovered in Antarctica. Recently, satellite images have been realised and many have been left convinced a mysterious triangle structure in the snowy and icy continent is the newest wonder of the world.
It's left multiple people scratching their heads and questioning where a new pyramid would have come from. The huge pyramid-shaped mass was seen from images taken over the southern part of Antarctica's Ellsworth Mountain range. Some odd look peaks, which seem to be emerging from the ground, have emerged.
One apparently measures up to two kilometers in each direction of its square base - which is very similar to the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Since the photos emerged online this week, many conspiracy theorists have shared their thoughts on how the structure got there and what it could be.
Satellite images of the structure sparked conspiracy theories (Getty Images)One person tweeted: "Wait how they moved the pyramids from Egypt to Antarctica?", MailOnline reports. Artificial life or a secret society like the Illuminati have been among the strangest of suggestions, while others attributed the design to humans. Another social media user wrote: "This structure belongs to the civilization which existed before the flood. Around 10,000 years ago Antarctica was warm."
But before everyone got their tin foil hats too tight, it has emerged the structure is actually a mountain. Geologist Dr Mitch Darcy said: "The pyramid-shaped structures are located in the Ellsworth Mountains, which is a range more than 400 km long, so it's no surprise there are rocky peaks cropping out above the ice. The peaks are clearly composed of rock, and it's a coincidence that this particular peak has that shape. It's not a complicated shape, so it's not a special coincidence either. By definition, it is a nunatak, which is simply a peak of rock sticking out above a glacier or an ice sheet. This one has the shape of a pyramid, but that doesn't make it a human construction."
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The 'pyramid' was discovered in Antarctica earlier this week (Getty Images)The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranged in Antarctica, forming a 350km long and 48 km wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are located within the Chilean Antarctic territorial claim and were discovered in 1935 by Lincoln Ellsworth on a trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island to the Ross Ice Shelf. The temperature in the Ellsworth mountains average around a frosty -30C, and the range only has a short window to visit, with the best time for expeditions being through November to January.