David Pratt May 2001 Part 3 of 4 Part 3: Polar Puzzles 1. The open polar sea 2. The north pole controversy 3. Polar land cover-up? 4. Flights of fancy 5. Auroras and the poles References 1. The open polar sea Many 19th-century explorers believed that beyond the belt of pack ice at the perimeter of the Arctic Ocean there was an open polar sea, and possibly continental land as well. The idea of an open polar sea took […] Read More
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THE SMOKY GOD Or A Voyage to the Inner World By WILLIS GEORGE EMERSON With Illustrations by JOHN A. WILLIAMS CHICAGO FORBES & COMPANY 1908 Copyright, 1908. By WILLIS GEORGE EMERSON CONTENTS Dedication Part I. Author’s Foreword Part II. Olaf Jansen’s Story Part III. Beyond The North Wind Part IV. In the Under World Part V. Among the Ice Packs Part VI. Conclusion Part VII. Author’s Afterword ILLUSTRATIONS “I was left alone with the dead.” “Twenty-eight years — long, […] Read More
On the existence of ice in the Arctic basin– Dr. Nansen spent two and one half years in the Arctic, and concluded that the ice there did not build-up or freeze there. The Arctic is one and a half times the size of the USA, and over most of the area there is an accumulation of several meters of pack ice and icebergs. This accumulation begs explanation, even considering that there are open polar seas on the Siberian side […] Read More
Source: Our Hollow Earth! http://www.ourhollowearth.com/Chap2.htm Therefore, let us take the evidence of the scientific community as presented by John M. Prytz in his article, “The Hollow Earth Hoax,” and see how well his evidence recorded in high school texts, even in elementary texts, stands up against the first-hand observations of trained observers. Number One item of Prytz’s “factual evidence explaining why the hollow earth (and it’s polar openings) cannot exist,” states: “The North polar area is covered with […] Read More