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The following is the first page from the book I've been reading for awhile(Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock)
8 RECONNAISSANCE TECHNICAL SQUARDRON (SAC)
UNITED STATES AIRFORCE
Westover Airforce Base
Massachusetts
SUBJECT: Admiral Piri Reis World Map
To: Professor Charles H. Hapgood,
Keene College,
Keene, New Hampshire
Dear Professor Hapgood,
Your request for evaluation of certain unusual features of the Piri Reis World Map of 1513 by this organization has been reviewed.
The claim that the lower part of the map portrays the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land Antartica, and the Pamer Peninsula, is reasonable. We find this is the most logical and in all probability the correct interpretation of the map.
The geographical detail shown in the lower part of the map aggress every remarkably with the results of the seismic profile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition of the 1949.
This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap.
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 of 1513.
Harold Z. Ohlmeyer
Lt. Colonel, USAF
Commander
Bear in mind that Antartica wasn't officially 'discovered' until the 1800s by the Russians. Yet the cartographer(a very renowned Turkish admiral) included the landmass on his map. He did scribble on the side that he got the source from an even older map. The last time anyone could have mapped that particular landmass was ~4000 B.C., or before the dawn of known civilization. Yet cartography is looked as a civilized act....so who did it? Great book, a lot of information to go over.
8 RECONNAISSANCE TECHNICAL SQUARDRON (SAC)
UNITED STATES AIRFORCE
Westover Airforce Base
Massachusetts
SUBJECT: Admiral Piri Reis World Map
To: Professor Charles H. Hapgood,
Keene College,
Keene, New Hampshire
Dear Professor Hapgood,
Your request for evaluation of certain unusual features of the Piri Reis World Map of 1513 by this organization has been reviewed.
The claim that the lower part of the map portrays the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land Antartica, and the Pamer Peninsula, is reasonable. We find this is the most logical and in all probability the correct interpretation of the map.
The geographical detail shown in the lower part of the map aggress every remarkably with the results of the seismic profile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition of the 1949.
This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap.
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 of 1513.
Harold Z. Ohlmeyer
Lt. Colonel, USAF
Commander
Bear in mind that Antartica wasn't officially 'discovered' until the 1800s by the Russians. Yet the cartographer(a very renowned Turkish admiral) included the landmass on his map. He did scribble on the side that he got the source from an even older map. The last time anyone could have mapped that particular landmass was ~4000 B.C., or before the dawn of known civilization. Yet cartography is looked as a civilized act....so who did it? Great book, a lot of information to go over.