North South circumnavigation by PanAm in 1977
Jeranism pointed me to a recent N/S circumnavigation so I started thinking along those lines and found this wonderful little film.
View ArticleU.S. Navy 30 min 1967 documentary on Antarctic & possible clues
As of April 8, 2016, today, I only found this newsreel from 1967 made by the U.S. Navy. I'll review it in coming days with an ear and eye trained on anomalies consistent with our suspicion that...
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1903 isotherm map with early explorer's routes is interesting.
I've looked a fair number of maps of Antarctica so when I point out how unique and interesting any one particular map is, you can be assured that my choice is based on some fair judgement. I'll study...
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Swiss Polar Institute's (SPI) 90 Day "Antarctic Circumpolar Expedition" (ACE)...
Last night, while browsing using various search terms, I found this...I'll add more to this blog entry over coming hours and days. My discovery of this mission fits right into this blog's purpose. If...
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Maquarie Island is NOT south of 60 deg S!
Find Macqueria Island below-- it's below "Balleny"Maquarie Island is NOT south of 60 deg S!I just realized this morning, Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 10:26 am MST in Phoenix AZ that Macquarie Island is NOT...
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Mertz Glacier approach is trecherous due to loss of compass.
Compasses fail as Aurora Australis nears Mertz glacier Compasses fail as Aurora Australis nears Mertz glacier, according to an ABC News report at YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLtg4MXpcPM ....
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Fred Paulson's apparent trip to the South Pole features some oddities.
May 10, 2016. Tues. 7 am. by Rick PotvinPAULSON AGAINI'll continue my look at Fred Paulsen this morning, the CEO of Ferring Pharmaceuticals who is financing a circumnavigation of Antarctica, but only a...
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Partial circumnavigation in 2014/15 by Antarktis OPPOSITE to Paulsen's...
ANTARKTIS TRAVELLED SAME PLANNED ROUTE AS PAULSEN in REVERSEI ran across another apparent claimed partial circumnavigation of Antarctica by a group calling itself Antarktis.net which looks Dutch to me....
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1983 Antarctic Circumnavigation by POLAR STAR
I can't yet find any of the timing data on the 1983 Polar Star US Coast Guard 3/4 circumnavigation (they claim) but here's the map. I'll post more in coming days and weeks on this. You can find it in...
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Miles between stations documentation
Here's a list of miles in chart form that I found in June 2015 that I didn't follow up on and have lost the source for. I might be able to re-find it and examine it more closely again. The position...
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Vendee Race is fake IMO-- witness the staged interest in what contestant says.
There are many fake things going on in the world. I was interviewed by www.Fakeologist.com 's Ab Irato awhile ago to review my Who Did 9/11 forum which concurred with SeptemberClues and Ab Irato that...
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Sitting on a raft can get you around Antarctica in 4 months (or 2 years)
By my cursory analysis below, it appears I could FLOAT around Antarctica in less than a month or take up to 2 years-- without SAILS! [Indexed under "Southern Ocean - floating around Antarctica" in...
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Argo telemetry bouys indicate world is 5X as big in Southern Hemisphere than...
Argo is a program of ocean monitering using sophisticated bouys. Here's one-- 1900978http://www.argodatamgt.org/Access-to-data/Description-of-all-floats2It was released south of South Africa in 2009...
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New Horizons Expedition tour claims to cover 1/3 of Antarctica coast in 1 month
New Horizon Expedition's partial circumnavigation takes 1 month, if true.If the following 1/3 circumavigation route is covered by New Horizon Expeditions in one month-- then it appears possible to sail...
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Circumnavigation by Carnegie in 1916 took 4 months but was well north of 60S.
You can see that the route of the Carnegie never goes higher than 60S latitude. You can see for yourself that there are significant "short cuts' being taken by the ship as seen in the pointed peaks of...
View ArticleMeasuring speed on water and in the air become a major problem for me.
Measuring speed on water and in the air become a major problem for me. I've been considering the problem of the distance around Antarctica as a way to verify a flat vs. a spherical earth for about a...
View ArticleIf we're going to circumnavigate Antarctica by air or sea, we should check...
Apparently, we can't check the weather in Antarctica. (Apologies in advance for the low volume and expletives used by the creator of the video which is interesting nonethe less.)
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Quick Google-maps video tour of about 27 of 80 claimed research stations with...
The following video claims that there are 80 stations. I'll have to look at the Wikipedia entry on stations again as well as other maps. The concept of the video is interesting-- I've posted it in this...
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