The Pyramid (West Antarctica)

The pyramid
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height	550  m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates	63 ° 25 '44 "  S , 57 ° 1' 13"  W Coordinates: 63 ° 25 '44 "  S , 57 ° 1' 13"  W

The Pyramid ( Swedish pyramids , translated on both sides as the pyramid ) is a pyramid-shaped and 554  m high nunatak in the north of Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Trinity Peninsula, it rises 2.5 km southeast of the head end of Hope Bay .

A team around Johan Gunnar Andersson discovered and named the Nunatak during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee converted this designation into English on November 21, 1949.

See also

• Dimaryp Peak

Web links

• The Pyramid in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• The Pyramid on geographic.org (English)