Australian archeologist believes the Piri Reis map shows Antarctica ice-free

The author of the Ancient Destructions blog site, Peter “Mungo” Jupp, believes  the Piri Reis map shows Antarctica ice-free. There is some controversy. Others believe the part of the map that could be Antarctica is actually the southeastern coast of South America.

Interestingly, the Ancient Destructions blog site includes a copy of a letter from Harold Z. Ohlmeyer Lt. Colonel, USAF Commander, who is writing to author Charles Hapgood saying that Colonel Ohlmeyer agrees that the Piri Reis map shows part of the coast of Antarctica before it was covered with ice.

That’s great–that a USAF Lt. Colonel would validate the Antarctica details of the Piri Reis map. Here’s an excerpt from the letter:

The geographical detail shown in the lower part of the map agrees very remarkably with the results of the seismic profile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition of 1949.This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap. This part of Antarctica ice free. The ice-cap in this region is now about a mile thick. We have no idea how the data on this map can be reconciled with the supposed state of geographical knowledge in 1513.

Harold Z. Ohlmeyer Lt. Colonel, USAF Commander

The Ancient Destructions blog site also has a video on it that you might enjoy. I like that Peter “Mungo” Jupp is an Australian archaeologist and therefore he’s close to Antarctica.

As before, I am interested in the Piri Reis map, because, if it shows Antaractica ice free, it means that someone somewhere in humanity’s past, had to have been there when Antarctica was ice-free. Could there have been a pole shift? Did the earth’s crust shift, move Antarctica from a location in a more temperatue area of the globe down to the pole? Was there an extreme climate change? Could this happen again?

Piri Reis Map could point to an ice-free Antarctica in antiquity

Map of the world by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis, drawn in 1513.Only half of the original map survives and is held at the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul.The map synthesizes information from twenty maps, including one drawn by Christopher Columbus of the New World. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. It is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

The oldest known map of the world was compiled by Ottoman-Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. He used 10 Arabian sources, 4 maps of India from the Portuguese, and a map of the New World made by Christopher Columbus to compile his map. The map is drawn on gazelle skin.

Only the Western third of the map has survived. It lay undisturbed in the Topkapi Sarayi Library until German theologian Gustav Adolf Deissman discovered it in 1929. According to an online Wikipedia article, Piri Reis Map: 

Amateur historian Gavin Menzies claims in his book 1421: The Year China Discovered America that the southern landmass is indeed the Antarctic coastline and was based on earlier Chinese maps. According to Menzies, Admiral Hong Bao charted the coast over 70 years before Columbus as part of a larger expedition under the famous Chinese explorer and admiral Zheng He to bring the world under China’s tribute system.

I became interested in the Piri Reis map while researching background information for my End of the World 2012 Movie. I thought that if the Piri Reis map showed the Antarctica coastline, it meant that one of the sources used in compiling the map had to have been made during the time Antarctica was free of the mile thickness of ice covering it now. If so, it would show evidence of the world undergoing previous cataclysmic events. Perhaps, a pole shift?

Intriguing Theories on Earth’s Axial Tilt and Atlantis

Here is an abstract previewing a very interesting article theorizing a huge impact off the coast of Antarctic as the cause of the sinking of Atlantis and the tilt of the earth’s axis.

It does remind me of another theory I read about, I think in one of Graham Hancock’s books, that Antarctica is actually Atlantis and that when the earth’s crust moved during a physical pole shift (not magnetic as has happened so many times in the past) that Atlantis ended up at the South Pole and froze over. He gives this explanation for the Piri Reis map showing contours of Antarctica which is presently under a mile-deep ice sheet.

Abstract: Using Google Earth and browsing the geographic appearance of the Earth’s crust starting from the South Pacific Ocean right above Antarctica and traveling over to Drake’s Passage and into the South Atlantic Ocean there seems to be a visual trace that some sort of cosmic collision occurred in that area. (See Figure 1) The impact of the object surfed across the ocean and collided with the bottom of South America where it once connected to Antarctica creating Drake’s Passage opening. This impact also may have had the kinetic energy to break the Earth’s crustal plate and create the fault lines (See Figure 3) in addition to changing Earth’s axial tilt (See Figure 2).[Report and Opinion. 2010;2(2):1-2]. (ISSN: 1553-9873).

COSMIC IMPACT SITE THAT CREATED EARTH’S AXIAL TILT AND FAULT LINES