From: officialflagrant
Antarctica, often envisioned as a frozen wasteland, holds tantalizing clues to a vastly different past, potentially even a lush and green environment during the existence of the human species [00:00:20]. This possibility is supported by findings like ancient fossils, confirming that 90 million years ago, a dense rainforest thrived where miles of ice now dominate [01:07:17]. The central question, however, is whether this verdant period coincided with human habitation [01:07:43].
Enigmatic Ancient Maps
Adding to the mystery are ancient maps that depict Antarctica free of ice, a continent our civilization supposedly only discovered in 1820 [00:56:51]. For example, the Oronteus Finaeus map from 1531 illustrates Antarctica and includes mountains on its edges, consistent with geological observations [00:57:55], [01:06:30]. The map’s legend claims it reveals regions previously “hidden in darkness,” suggesting it was based on much older, decaying source maps [00:58:20], [00:58:25]. This contradicts the notion that these early mapmakers merely added a fantasy continent to balance the world [00:58:37]. The precision of longitudes on these ancient maps further hints at a civilization capable of exploring and mapping the Earth during the last ice age [00:56:34], [00:58:49].
Theories of Earth Crust Displacement
The concept of a once-temperate Antarctica was significantly explored by Charles Hapgood, whose book Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings investigates these anomalous maps [01:08:21]. Hapgood proposed the “Earth crust displacement” theory, suggesting that the entire outer crust of the Earth could occasionally shift, moving continents like Antarctica into different latitudes [01:08:41]. While mainstream academia often critiques this theory by citing Antarctica’s frozen state for millions of years [01:09:44], the idea of a comet impact initiating such a shift has been considered [01:10:11].
While still not entirely dismissed, the focus has shifted towards the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis as a more scientifically robust explanation for ancient cataclysms [01:10:28], [01:11:01]. However, the mystery of Antarctica’s past remains a key area of speculations about ancient civilizations and their advanced knowledge.
Contemporary Observations and Agreements
A friend who traveled to Antarctica observed that the mountains appeared “eerily pointy and foursided” and that there were “way more Mountain than he thought it would be” [01:06:18], [01:06:26]. More intriguingly, there’s a widely acknowledged international pact among countries with claims to Antarctica, agreeing not to dig for or remove any minerals. This has led to speculations about secret knowledge and conspiracies that they are “clearly protecting or preserving something that may or may not be under” three miles of ice [01:06:41], [01:07:00].
Related Topics
- The possibility of Atlantis is tied to the Younger Dryas period, with Plato’s date for its submergence aligning with a major meltwater pulse [01:18:08], [01:20:33].
- The Great Pyramid of Giza’s alignment and dimensions encode Earth’s measurements on a scale related to the Earth’s precessional motion, suggesting an advanced knowledge of astronomy in ancient cultures [01:00:29], [01:03:05].
- The argument is made that a lost civilization may have existed during the Ice Age, with evidence potentially found on the flooded continental shelves and unexplored regions like the Amazon and Sahara Desert [00:40:05], [01:29:46], [01:30:34].