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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Ross Sea by one of the Byrd Antarctic Expeditions provide conclusive
evidence that ‘great rivers, carrying down fine well grained sediments’
did flow in this part of Antarctica until perhaps as late as 4000 BC.
According to the report of Dr Jack Hough of the University of Illinois: ‘The
log of core N-5 shows glacial marine sediment from the present to 6000
years ago. From 6000 to 15,000 years ago the sediment is fine-grained
with the exception of one granule at about 12,000 years ago. This
suggests an absence of ice from the area during that period, except
perhaps for a stray iceberg 12,000 years ago.’
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Exhibit 8

The Orontaeus Finnaeus World Map reviewed in Part I accurately depicts
the Ross Sea as it would look if it were free of ice and, in addition, shows
Antarctica’s ranges of lofty coastal mountains with great rivers flowing
from them where only mile-deep glaciers are to be found today.
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Charles Hapgood, The Path Of The Pole, 1970, page 111ff: ‘It is rare
that geological investigations receive important confirmation from
archaeology; yet in this case, it seems that the matter of the deglaciation
of the Ross Sea can be confirmed by an old map that has somehow
survived many thousands of years ... It was discovered and published in
1531 by the French geographer Oronce Fine [Oronteus Finnaeus] and is
part of his Map of the World ...
It has been possible to establish the authenticity of this map. In several
years of research the projection of this ancient map was worked out. It
was found to have been drawn on a sophisticated map projection, with
the use of spherical trigonometry, and to be so scientific that over 50
locations on the Antarctic continent have been found to be located on it
with an accuracy that was not attained by modern cartographic science
until the 19th century. And, of course, when this map was first published,
in 1531, nothing at all was known of Antarctica. The continent was not
discovered in modern times until about 1818 and was not fully mapped
until after 1920 ...’
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Exhibit 9

The Buache Map, also reviewed in Part I, accurately depicts the subglacial
topography of Antarctica. Does it do so by chance or might the
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continent indeed have been entirely ice-free recently enough for the

10 Path of the Pole, p. 107.
See Part I.
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12 Path of the Pole, p. 111ff.
13 See Part I for details.

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