Antarctica coastline on the Piri Reis map
I am continuing to work on the 2012 End of the World Movie. I’m just at the part where I talk about previous end of the world scenarios and I mention the Piri Reis map, which, according to Charles Hapgood, illustrates some of the Antarctica Continent, with details of the landmass under the ice such as flowing rivers. The following excerpt is from Wikipedia.
Hapgood suggests that the Antarctic section of the map was copied at an incorrect scale to the rest of the map and resulted in the distortion and enlargement of the continent on several ancient maps. This would explain why there is no waterway between South America and Antarctica. He suggests several points of continuity between the Piri Reis Map and modern maps of the continent below the ice sheets. Since the Antarctic continent was not officially sighted until 1820 and its full coastline was not known until much later; this claim, if true, would require major revisions to the history of exploration, settlement, evolution, and technological advancements of the time.
