Ancient Map Of Antarctica Without Ice

The baffling Piri Reis Map of 1513. The continent of Antarctica was discovered in 1818 several hundreds of years after the Piri Reis map was drawn yet it shows a land mass where Antarctica is. Mathieu Morlighem UCI. World Map with Countries.

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The Oronteus Finaeus map Oronteus Fineus map shows an ice free Antarctica.

Ancient Map Of Antarctica Without Ice. The Piri Reis Map Shows the Antarctic Land Mass Antarctica is more than 98-percent covered in glacial ice and snow. But more recently it has been revealed that the map which is based on much older charts of the world depicts the continent of Antarctica free from ice. The map drawn on gazelle skin parchment was presented to Ottoman Sultan Selim I in 1517.

The Buache Map is an 18th century map commonly claimed to accurately depict the continent of Antarctica before it was buried by ice. It shows the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the coast of Brazil with reasonable accuracy. There are no ancient maps showing Antarctica without ice.

H 1824 Bilkent University By Sandra Mardenfeld March 24 2021 258 pm EDT Maps usually clarify things but in the case of a 500-year-old gazelle-skin parchment called the Piri Reis Map its discovery only created more mystery. Previous maps showed a canyon thought to be far less deep but this was wrong. The Oronteus Finaeus map also spelled Oronteus Fineus map was incredibly precise.

The confusion probably arises from the Piri Reis map which has been said to show the Antarctic coast with notes saying it had a warm climate. Antarctica was not discovered before the 19th Century and not mapped before the last years of the 19th Century. The northern coastline of Antarctica is perfectly detailed.

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