Mount Cheops is a mountain, over 610 metres (2,001.3 ft) high, standing 8 miles (12.9 km) south-southeast of Cape Garcia

Cape Garcia

Cape Garcia is a cape at the north side of the entrance to Barilari Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. The cape was discovered and named "Cap Loqui" by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Charcot. At the same time Charcot named the south entrance point to the bay "Cap Garcia,"...

 on the west coast of Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

. It was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd

Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd

Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd was a British aerial photography company. It incorporated Aerofilms Ltd and the Aircraft Operating Company.In 1947 it was using three types of aircraft: Austers, a Percival Proctor and a D. H. Rapide and planned to acquire one or more Percival Mergansers...

 in 1956-57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...

 after the Great Pyramid of Giza

Great Pyramid of Giza

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact...

 (also known as the Pyramid of Cheops) because of its distinctive shape.