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Google Earth Antarctic kraken

misidentification

Evidence status

Object identified as rocks, not a verified organism.

Editorial assessment of this proposition; not a numeric confidence score.

Claim or proposition being examined

A satellite image near Deception Island captured a huge tentacled animal.

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Inclusion documents a claim; no independent truth inference from circulation. Category must remain visible.

Catalog review date reported: 2026-10-28. This is inherited catalog metadata, not a new verification of the linked source.

Sail Rock geological field photograph, published 2013

A field photograph identified as Sail Rock in Kraus, Kurbatov and Yates’s 2013 geological study. Comparative rock-formation context for the satellite “kraken” story; not the viral Google Earth image or an independent match of its pixels.

Stefan Kraus, Andrei Kurbatov and Martin Yates, Andean Geology 40(1), 2013, figure 2; via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0. Full frame retained; JPEG encoding.

Low-resolution 316×421 source; no upscaling. Primary paper describes a site southwest of Deception Island, but its distance differs from Commons/geographic descriptions; do not import coordinates or claim definitive feature matching. This is a geological comparison, not original-claim imagery.

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CC BY 4.0 verified both exact Commons file page and primary SciELO article footer license link. Credit authors and indicate extraction/resizing.

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