Originally posted by Hanslune
Yes that what he (Hapgood) suggested but that doesn’t mean you should believe him and one must ask why is the information for the caribbean so wrong?
Those islands on the Piri Reis map are not the Caribbean islands, but rather islands off the deglaciated coast of Antarctica! If you are going to attack Hapgood as well...then I guess that means a simultaneous attack on the military. I'll share a letter online.
Professor Charles H. Hapgood, of Keene College, contacted the US Air Force in 1960. In 1961, he received a response from the 8th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron's Cartographic section;
8 RECONNAISSANCE TECHNICAL SQUADRON (SAC)
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
Westover Air Force Base, Mass.
14 Aug 61
Mr. Charles H. Hapgood
Keene Teachers College
Keene, N.H.
Dear Professor Hapgood:
It is not very often that we have an opportunity to evaluate maps of ancient origin. The Piri Reis (1513) and Oronteus Fineaus (1531) maps sent to us by you, presented a delightful challenge, for it was not readily conceivable that they could be so accurate without being forged. With added enthusiasm we accepted this challenge and have expended many off duty hours evaluating your manuscript and the above maps. I am sure you will be pleased to know we have concluded that both of these maps were compiled from accurate original source maps, irrespective of dates. The following is a brief summary of our findings:
a. The solution of the portolano projection used by Admiral Piri Reis, ..checked in relationship to the grid computed by Mr. Richard W. Strachan (MIT), there is remarkably close agreement...It is our opinion that those who compiled the original map had an excellent knowledge of the continents covered by this map.
b. As stated by Colonel Harold Z. Ohlmeyer in his letter (July 6, 1960) to you, the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Laud, Antarctica, appears to be truly represented on the southern sector of the Piri Reis map. The agreement of the Piri Reis Map with the seismic profile of this area made by the Norwegian-British-Swedish Expedition of 1949, supported by your solution of the grid, places beyond a reasonable doubt the conclusion that the original source maps must have been made before the present Antarctic ice cap covered the Queen Maud Land coasts.
c. It is our opinion that the accuracy of the cartographic features shown in the Oronteus Fineaus Map (1531) suggests, beyond a doubt, that it also was compiled from accurate source maps of Antarctica, but in this case of the entire continent. Close examination has proved the original source maps must have been compiled at a time when the land mass and inland waterways of the continent were relatively free of ice. ..The comparison also suggests that the original source maps (compiled in remote antiquity) were prepared when Antarctica was presumably free of ice. The Cordiform Projection used by Oronteus Fineaus suggests the use of advanced mathematics. Further, the shape given to the Antarctic continent suggests the possibility, if not the probability, that the original source maps were compiled on a stereographic or gnomic type of projection (involving the use of spherical trigonometry).
d. We are convinced that the findings made by you and your associates are valid, and that they raise extremely important questions affecting geology and ancient history, questions which certainly require further investigation.
We thank you for extending us the opportunity to have participated in the study of these maps. The following officers and airmen volunteered their time to assist Captain Lorenzo W. Burroughs in this evaluation: Captain Richard E. Covault, CWO Howard D. Minor, MSgt Clifton M. Dover, MSgt David C. Carter, TSgt James H. Hood, SSgt James L. Carroll, and A1C Don R. Vance.
Antarctica Maps from Forbidden History
Are you also arguing with military officers who evaluated the maps? Hapgood? Or just me?
No I was expecting you to be knowledgeable about the PR map
Look buddy. Maybe you object to someone with a voluptuous chest talking about maps or something. But I do have a digital collection of over 10,000 maps that I've collected over the years. So far in your attacks on my credibility the only thing you've provided is 3rd rate pen sketches of South America when you claim to be disputing maps of Antarctica. I don't see how you can be attacking my credibility and knowledge of maps when the thread topic is ANTARCTICA and you haven't provided a link to even one credible source of Antarctica's subglacial coastline. If all that you can provide is a link to a pen sketch of South America with an inaccurate teeny-tiny sliver pen sketch of Antarctica's modern icy-coast (not the land beneath the ice)...then it's really not my credibility in question.
