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Graham Hancock – <strong>FINGERPRINTS</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>GODS</strong><br />

Ross Sea by one of the Byrd Antarctic Expeditions provide conclusive<br />

evidence that ‘great rivers, carrying down fine well grained sediments’<br />

did flow in this part of Antarctica until perhaps as late as 4000 BC.<br />

According to the report of Dr Jack Hough of the University of Illinois: ‘The<br />

log of core N-5 shows glacial marine sediment from the present to 6000<br />

years ago. From 6000 to 15,000 years ago the sediment is fine-grained<br />

with the exception of one granule at about 12,000 years ago. This<br />

suggests an absence of ice from the area during that period, except<br />

perhaps for a stray iceberg 12,000 years ago.’ 10<br />

Exhibit 8<br />

The Orontaeus Finnaeus World Map reviewed in Part I accurately depicts<br />

the Ross Sea as it would look if it were free of ice and, in addition, shows<br />

Antarctica’s ranges of lofty coastal mountains with great rivers flowing<br />

from them where only mile-deep glaciers are to be found today. 11<br />

Charles Hapgood, The Path Of The Pole, 1970, page 111ff: ‘It is rare<br />

that geological investigations receive important confirmation from<br />

archaeology; yet in this case, it seems that the matter of the deglaciation<br />

of the Ross Sea can be confirmed by an old map that has somehow<br />

survived many thousands of years ... It was discovered and published in<br />

1531 by the French geographer Oronce Fine [Oronteus Finnaeus] and is<br />

part of his Map of the World ...<br />

It has been possible to establish the authenticity of this map. In several<br />

years of research the projection of this ancient map was worked out. It<br />

was found to have been drawn on a sophisticated map projection, with<br />

the use of spherical trigonometry, and to be so scientific that over 50<br />

locations on the Antarctic continent have been found to be located on it<br />

with an accuracy that was not attained by modern cartographic science<br />

until the 19th century. And, of course, when this map was first published,<br />

in 1531, nothing at all was known of Antarctica. The continent was not<br />

discovered in modern times until about 1818 and was not fully mapped<br />

until after 1920 ...’ 12<br />

Exhibit 9<br />

The Buache Map, also reviewed in Part I, accurately depicts the subglacial<br />

topography of Antarctica. 13 Does it do so by chance or might the<br />

continent indeed have been entirely ice-free recently enough for the<br />

10 Path of the Pole, p. 107.<br />

11 See Part I.<br />

12 Path of the Pole, p. 111ff.<br />

13 See Part I for details.<br />

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