Pyramid in Antarctica?

Every now and then this false claim returns. Does this image really show a pyramid in Antarctica?

If I remember correctly, some UFO YouTube channel made this claim back in 2015 or 2016. The image can be seen in Google Earth at 79°58’39.25?S 81°57’32.21?W. That is not a pyramid.

“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,” Dr Mitch Darcy, geologist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, told IFLScience.

You can find similar looking rocky peaks or pyramidal peaks. Pyramidal peaks are often examples of nunataks.

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