Old Map Antarctica Without Ice

A new estimate of global glacier ice volume and ice velocity; In the map’s legend, piri inscribed that the map was based on about twenty charts and mappae mundi. This is antarctica under the ice as it is today.

If that is the case, then someone discovered and mapped antarctica centuries before its reported discovery in 1773. If the map was made using older maps, it proves a sophisticated civilization that predate human settlement. In the map’s legend, piri inscribed that the map was based on about twenty charts and mappae mundi.

It showed antarctica centuries before discovery, but without its ice cap jan 2, 2018 ian harvey late in 1929, gustav deissmann, a german theologian, was working in istanbul at the topkapi palace library.

In the map’s legend, piri inscribed that the map was based on about twenty charts and mappae mundi. The map, drawn on gazelle skin parchment, was presented to ottoman sultan selim i in 1517. He pulled towards him a map drawn on roe deer skin. Cook and his crew discovered a land that had, until then, remained a mystery.