Atlantis Beneath the Ice Read Online Free
Author: Rand Flem-Ath
OST : Mr. Mallery, this must then lead to the conclusion that there were competent explorers and mapmakers along the coast of the Atlantic long before Columbus.
M ALLERY : Several thousand years before. Not only explorers, but they must also have had a very competent and far-flung hydrographic organization, because you cannot map as large a continent as Antarctica as we know they did—probably 5,000 years ago. It can’t be done by any single individual or small group of explorers. It means an aggregation of skilled scientists who are familiar with astronomy as well as the methods required for topographic surveying.
HAPGOOD— THE U.S. AIR FORCE CARTOGRAPHIC OFFICE
One of Charles Hapgood’s students told him about the radio broadcast. Hapgood was immediately fascinated and decided to “investigate the map as thoroughly as I could.” 6
Since Mallery had used the U.S. Navy for his investigations, Hapgood decided to get a second opinion from the cartographic staff of the Strategic Air Command (SAC). The U.S. Air Force investigators came to the same conclusions as those of the U.S. Navy. They determined that the southern part of the map did in fact depict portions of subglacial Antarctica. However, conventional wisdom dictated that the island continent hadn’t been discovered until 1818.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Harold Z. Ohlmeyer wrote to Hapgood on July 6, 1960.
COPY
RECONNAISSANCE TECHNICAL SQUADRON (SAC) a
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE
MASSACHUSETTS
6 July 1960
Subject: Admiral Piri Reis World Map
To: Professor Charles H. Hapgood
Keene Teachers College
Keene, New Hampshire
Dear Professor Hapgood:
Your request for evaluating 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 thePrincess Martha coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, and the Palmer Peninsula is reasonable. We find this the most logical and in all probability the correct interpretation of the map.
The geographic 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-Norwegian Expedition of 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 geographic knowledge in 1513.
(signed)
HAROLD Z. OHLMEYER
Lt. Colonel, USA
Commander 7
This letter from Lt. Col. Ohlmeyer was included in Hapgood’s 1960 memo to President Eisenhower. Not included, however, were the salient remarks of U.S. Air Force Capt. Lorenzo W. Burroughs (chief of the Cartographic Section that worked on the Piri Reis map). He wrote, “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.” 8
CORRESPONDING WITH HAPGOOD
Our adventure with the study of ancient maps began in the summer of 1977 when Charles Hapgood replied to an article we wrote outliningour belief that Antarctica was once the site of Atlantis. We’d concluded that Hapgood’s theory of earth crust displacement was the missing link that could unravel the mystery of the lost island continent. Hapgood sent the following letter.
CHARLES H. HAPGOOD
R.F.D. 3
WINCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03470
August 3rd, 1977
Dear Rose and Rand,
I am astonished and delighted by your article, which arrived here today. Believe it or not, it is the first truly scientific exploration of my work that has ever been done. You have found evidence for crust displacement that I did not find.
However, it would seem that you are not aware of a book I published in
M ALLERY : Several thousand years before. Not only explorers, but they must also have had a very competent and far-flung hydrographic organization, because you cannot map as large a continent as Antarctica as we know they did—probably 5,000 years ago. It can’t be done by any single individual or small group of explorers. It means an aggregation of skilled scientists who are familiar with astronomy as well as the methods required for topographic surveying.
HAPGOOD— THE U.S. AIR FORCE CARTOGRAPHIC OFFICE
One of Charles Hapgood’s students told him about the radio broadcast. Hapgood was immediately fascinated and decided to “investigate the map as thoroughly as I could.” 6
Since Mallery had used the U.S. Navy for his investigations, Hapgood decided to get a second opinion from the cartographic staff of the Strategic Air Command (SAC). The U.S. Air Force investigators came to the same conclusions as those of the U.S. Navy. They determined that the southern part of the map did in fact depict portions of subglacial Antarctica. However, conventional wisdom dictated that the island continent hadn’t been discovered until 1818.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Harold Z. Ohlmeyer wrote to Hapgood on July 6, 1960.
COPY
RECONNAISSANCE TECHNICAL SQUADRON (SAC) a
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE
MASSACHUSETTS
6 July 1960
Subject: Admiral Piri Reis World Map
To: Professor Charles H. Hapgood
Keene Teachers College
Keene, New Hampshire
Dear Professor Hapgood:
Your request for evaluating 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 thePrincess Martha coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, and the Palmer Peninsula is reasonable. We find this the most logical and in all probability the correct interpretation of the map.
The geographic 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-Norwegian Expedition of 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 geographic knowledge in 1513.
(signed)
HAROLD Z. OHLMEYER
Lt. Colonel, USA
Commander 7
This letter from Lt. Col. Ohlmeyer was included in Hapgood’s 1960 memo to President Eisenhower. Not included, however, were the salient remarks of U.S. Air Force Capt. Lorenzo W. Burroughs (chief of the Cartographic Section that worked on the Piri Reis map). He wrote, “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.” 8
CORRESPONDING WITH HAPGOOD
Our adventure with the study of ancient maps began in the summer of 1977 when Charles Hapgood replied to an article we wrote outliningour belief that Antarctica was once the site of Atlantis. We’d concluded that Hapgood’s theory of earth crust displacement was the missing link that could unravel the mystery of the lost island continent. Hapgood sent the following letter.
CHARLES H. HAPGOOD
R.F.D. 3
WINCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03470
August 3rd, 1977
Dear Rose and Rand,
I am astonished and delighted by your article, which arrived here today. Believe it or not, it is the first truly scientific exploration of my work that has ever been done. You have found evidence for crust displacement that I did not find.
However, it would seem that you are not aware of a book I published in
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