Antarctic Oil Painting Shrouded in Mystery

yahoo news/AP ^ | Mar 28, 2005

[Red Sea Swimmer]

Very interesting story. Well done on posting it. Hidden mysteries are being revealed all the time these days. The more the merrier I say.

[Lockbar]

I wonder if he ever did a landscape painting showing Capt. Cook being killed by happy natives on a beach in Hawaii.

[AntiGuv]

FWIW, there actually is a painting of that......

[Charles Henrickson]

Here's an even more recently discovered painting done by Hodges, of two polar bears in an Antarctic snowstorm:

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[BROKKANIC]

Striking resemblance.

[Red Sea Swimmer]

Actually the painting you show bears an uncanny resemblance to the latest winner of the 2005 San Francisco Postmodernist Abstract Art Prize.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, I'll add it to the catalog, but I think there's a similar topic...

Ah, here it is:

Cooks' Crew Hid First Antarctica Painting
ABC/Discovery News | 7-8-2004 | Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 07/08/2004 11:41:34 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1167694/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Not a ping, just a GGG update.

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[FairOpinion]

I missed that one. That's why sometimes duplicate posts are a good thing, if you miss the first one, you get another chance at it.

[SunkenCiv]

I've often wondered if Herodotus recorded ancient knowledge of the iceberg-choked Antarctic sea:

"Sesostris... proceeded in a fleet of ships of war from the Arabian gulf along the shores of the Erythraean sea, subduing the nations as he went, until he finally reached a sea which could not be navigated by reason of the shoals."

"As for Libya, we know it to be washed on all sides by the sea, except where it is attached to Asia. This discovery was first made by Necos, the Egyptian king, who on desisting from the canal which he had begun between the Nile and the Arabian gulf, sent to sea a number of ships manned by Phoenicians, with orders to make for the Pillars of Hercules, and return to Egypt through them, and by the Mediterranean. The Phoenicians took their departure from Egypt by way of the Erythraean sea, and so sailed into the southern ocean. When autumn came, they went ashore, wherever they might happen to be, and having sown a tract of land with corn, waited until the grain was fit to cut. Having reaped it, they again set sail; and thus it came to pass that two whole years went by, and it was not till the third year that they doubled the Pillars of Hercules, and made good their voyage home. On their return, they declared -- I for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may -- that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered."

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I love 'em, myself, not least because I'm guilty of 'em from time to time.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fascinating stuff. Kind of like finding a Ming vase at a garage sale. You never know what's out there.

The Age of Exploration. In those days, spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

[Lancey Howard]

Interesting post.

[timestax]

Those "ice bergs" look like some of those "monsters" that harassed Dr, Smith AND CREW OF JUPITER 2 on the old T.V.show LOST IN SPACE.

[djf]

Some other interesting stuff about that frozen place...
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-chat/1071522/posts#22

[geopyg]

Thanks for the link to the old posts. I was thinking this "msystery" had to do with that map of Antartica they found a long time ago. Found more info on the link:

Here's the text that goes with the picture: The Buache Map, drawn in 1737, copied from ancient greek maps. It shows the Anctartica without ice. The surprising fact is that if today the ice didn't cover the Anctartica, the Ross and Weddell seas would be united in a huge strait, which would divide the Anctartica in two land masses, a fact that in modern times was established only in the Geophysical year of 1968.

[nuconvert]

Thanks

[ASA Vet]

sown a tract of land with corn

Corn?
Maybe they got the seed from the same merchant who supplied the cocaine?

[martin_fierro]

two polar bears in an Antarctic snowstorm

It's your world. Do what'chu wan'.

[SunkenCiv]

By "corn" the (European) translator meant "wheat". In Europe, what we call corn, they call maize. ;')