When was Antarctica REALLY discovered?


	When was Antarctica REALLY discovered?

quickstar

4-1-2007 11:16 AM

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antarctica, maps, cartography, turkey, history

quickstar says:

This raises some interesting questions, indeed!

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4-1-2007 2:57 PM

Socratoad

Very interesting indeed. Great clip, great site
Thanks quickstar.

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Research showed that it was a genuine document drawn in 1513 by Piri
Reis, a famous admiral of the
Turkish fleet in the sixteenth century. 
His passion was cartography. His high rank within the
Turkish navy allowed him to have a privileged access to the Imperial Library of
Constantinople.
The Turkish admiral
admits in a series of notes on the map that he compiled and
copied the data from a large number of source maps, some of
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Reis managed to draw such an accurate map of the Antarctic
region 300 years before it was discovered, but that the map
shows the coastline under the ice. Geological evidence confirms that the latest date Queen Maud
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