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9 results for "Antarctica"

M_5_07 Speculative Forbidden Archaeology

M_5_07 — Impossible Ancient Maps of Antarctica: Critical Assessment

Among the most provocative claims in alternative history is the assertion that several medieval and Renaissance-era maps depict Antarctica — a continent not officially discovered until 1820 and not mapped until the 20th

Antarctica Piri Reis Oronteus Finaeus Hapgood ice-free subglacial
M_5_06 Credible Forbidden Archaeology

M_5_06 — Map Controversies: Vinland Map, Zeno Map, Buache Map

Beyond the famous Piri Reis map (treated in M_5_03), several other historical maps have generated intense controversy over whether they depict geographical knowledge that "shouldn't" have existed at the time they were cr

Vinland Map Zeno Map Buache Map medieval cartography forgery provenance
O_5_11 Verified Earth Anomalies

O_5_11 — Antarctic Anomalies: Dry Valleys, Blood Falls, and Sub-Ice Geology

Antarctica — the coldest, driest, highest, and windiest continent — harbors an extraordinary array of geological, chemical, and biological anomalies that challenge common assumptions about what constitutes an "uninhabita

Antarctica McMurdo Dry Valleys Blood Falls Taylor Glacier ice sheet sub-ice geology
O_5_06 Verified Earth Anomalies

O_5_06 — Subglacial Lakes: Vostok, Whillans, and Antarctic Hidden Water

Beneath the Antarctic ice sheet — Earth's largest body of ice, up to ~4.8 km thick — lies a vast network of more than 400 subglacial lakes, bodies of liquid water maintained by geothermal heat from the underlying bedrock

subglacial lake Lake Vostok Whillans Antarctica ice sheet geothermal
M_5_03 Verified Forbidden Archaeology

M_5_03 — Piri Reis Map and Cartographic Anomalies

The Piri Reis map is a fragment of a world map drawn on gazelle parchment by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis (Ahmed Muhiddin Piri) in 1513 CE, rediscovered in the Topkapi Palace library, Istanbul, in 1929.

Piri Reis portolan chart Ottoman 1513 Antarctica coastline
M_4_13 Speculative Forbidden Archaeology

M_4_13 — Earth Crustal Displacement: Hapgood's Theory and Its Legacy

Earth crustal displacement (ECD) — the hypothesis that the Earth's lithosphere can shift as a relatively intact shell over the underlying asthenosphere, rapidly relocating the geographic positions of continents relative

earth crustal displacement Charles Hapgood pole shift Piri Reis map ice sheet displacement Albert Einstein
M_5_00 Forbidden Archaeology

M_5_00 — Analysis Methods Controversies: Subfolder Summary

E_4_10 Cataclysms & Chronology

E_4_10 — Ice Core Science: Greenland and Antarctic Climate Records

Ice cores drilled from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets constitute one of the most powerful archives of past climate on Earth. Greenland cores (GRIP, GISP2, NGRIP, NEEM) provide high-resolution records extending ba

ice cores GRIP GISP2 NGRIP EPICA Vostok
O_5_00 Earth Anomalies

O_5_00 — Climate Records Ecology: Subfolder Summary