Reddit user discovers mysterious ‘doorway’ in Antarctica

( NewsNation ) — Is it Bigfoot’s vacation home, a blown-off Boeing door, or a shuttle from “Star Trek”? Conspiracy theorists are running rampant after discovering what they believe to be a mysterious “doorway” in Antarctica seen on Google Maps satellite imaging.

A seven-month-old post on Reddit is getting the answers it needs. One user posted the Google Maps snapshot of the structure in March asking, “Massive door in Antarctica?”

The coordinates are southeast of the Japanese-run Showa Station, a permanent research location.

“I just love the mystery of Antarctica, wish we know more,” one user commented.

“Wonder if they get door dash there,” another joked.

Others speculated whether it was Bigfoot’s vacation home or a Boeing door, alluding to an incident earlier this year in which an airplane door flew off forcing an emergency landing.

An orb casting a shadow, “Monsters Inc.” bedroom doors, and an underground bunker were more suggested explanations, some in jest others not.

Scientists have a less ominous explanation.

“This feature is in an area of fast sea ice in East Antarctica, just offshore of the coast. There are a series of islands there and the water is pretty shallow,” said Bethan Davies, a professor of glaciology at the University of Newcastle, to the DailyMail after looking at the coordinates on Google Earth Pro.

“This is an iceberg that became grounded and is now stuck and melting out in situ. You can see many other icebergs in the area,” she said.

Martin Siegert, co-director of the Grantham Institute in London, agrees.

“This is simply ice flow around a solid subglacial obstacle, influenced also by melting and re-freezing of ice and by katabatic winds,” Siegert told the DailyMail. “It’s an interesting pattern, but not unusual or surprising glaciologically.”

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