Antarctica- not always so cold and remote

Various ^ | Peter Jupp

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Global warming left Antarctica free from ice ca. 6,000 years ago and not an SUV in sight.

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

[americanophile]

Doesn’t seem like a depiction of Antarctica at all to me, but entirely of South American and the Caribbean.

[Ramius]

Like nearly all early charts, the latitudinal accuracy is high, with distortion along the longitude. It’s still very interesting that there could have been explorations of the east coast of South America dating back before we ever thought possible, but it also reflects the basic “longitude problem” that plagued sailors for so many centuries before somebody came up with the answer: accurate timekeeping.

Given that sort of distortion, an early map could be stretched to resemble a number of coastlines. I’d like to see the comparison to the Antarctic coast.

[zot]

BTTT

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

The bottom portion of the Piri Reis map has been proven to depict the continuation of the Argentine coast turned sideways to save space.
Absolutely and really nothing to see here. Totally bogus.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

See #7

[Ramius]

I’m completely willing to believe that it’s bogus. But that said... it’s the southern coast (the Argentine coast) that really doesn’t match. It sees forced, even allowing for the usual longitudinal distortion. The features in the Piri map don’t really match up with the features in the coastline.

Has anybody done a similar feature matching for the Antarctic coast? Seems that would settle the matter.

[Ramius]

=”it seems forced”...

Uhg.

[Allegra]

I’ve decided that I would like to have the Falkland Islands.

[count-your-change]

That's amazing! Antarctica looks just like S. America there.
And it's green too.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

But that said... it’s the southern coast (the Argentine coast) that really doesn’t match.

But it does. The Argentine Valdes Peninsula and Puerto Madryn under it are an obvious feature along the bottom. Valdes Pen. Further to the right along the bottom, the coast follows the curvature around the Gulf of San Jorge to the point of land at Puerto Deseado in the bottom right corner. That is more than enough, given the quality of early cartography, to be conclusive.

[Ramius]

Yes, but there are other prominent features that are skipped and don’t have a counterpart in the other map.

I’m not saying that I think it is antarctica, but the northern part matches better, feature for feature, than the southern part.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Name one that is skipped.

[fieldmarshaldj]

What fur ?

[hennie pennie]

*ping*

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks hennie pennie. Apropos of nothing, I may put on the the CD of "The Cheerful Insanity of Giles Giles and Fripp". ;')

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin!