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Spotted on the Google Earth map, the white blur deep in the barren continent has provoked speculation it could be a secret research station hidden by a government or a UFO buried in the ice.

YouTube user Wowforreel has highlighted it in a video and shows how you can find it yourself on the web app Google Earth.

Describing the visual as a "patchy mass", he says: "Antarctica is crawling with weirdness."

He then points to the giant 14.5 miles by 4.5 miles area of bright white saying: "This thing is so huge you can't miss it - not even from outer space.