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The Mysteries of the First-Ever Map of the North Pole
Atlas Obscura ^ | February 27, 2017 | Cara Giaimo

Posted on 12/23/2024 10:54:11 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 12/23/2024 10:54:11 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv

PinGGG!...................

1606? The map looks very much close to the actual world............


2 posted on 12/23/2024 10:55:09 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

“These days, climate scientists are looking hard at Arctic maps” desperately searching for ways to keep the scam going.


3 posted on 12/23/2024 10:57:14 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah since we don’t actually have much control over what the earth does.


4 posted on 12/23/2024 11:03:48 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: BenLurkin

“searching for ways to keep the scam going.”

With big money coming in.


5 posted on 12/23/2024 11:04:26 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: BenLurkin

DOGE needs to look at every active federal grant on the books.

I bet it’s more obscene than we can imagine.


6 posted on 12/23/2024 11:05:11 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

Especially the one on the right:)

When I was sailing all charts looked like works of art to me. The coasting charts had detail of prominent buildings, vegetation or mountains along coastlines etc, all on quality paper. The paper started going down hill about the time the gaffiti like loran lines sprawled over the charts. The loran lines are gone but the quality and detail was still down.


7 posted on 12/23/2024 11:06:26 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Red Badger

Boy I remember my first trip there.

I wouldn’t recommend it.


8 posted on 12/23/2024 11:09:11 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Cold Heart

Th one on the Left was produced in 1606. Yet it appears to show Hudson’s Bay in What is now Canada. Hudson’s Bay wasn’t discovered until 1611...............


9 posted on 12/23/2024 11:11:21 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Besides the North Pole, there is just as much mystery if not more of the ancient maps of Antarctica.


10 posted on 12/23/2024 11:13:46 AM PST by texanyankee
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To: BenLurkin

’ “These days, climate scientists are looking hard at Arctic maps” desperately searching for ways to keep the scam going.’

This!


11 posted on 12/23/2024 11:15:09 AM PST by KamperKen (u)
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To: Red Badger

Pygmies do indeed live at the North Pole but in modern times they are known as Santa’s elves.


12 posted on 12/23/2024 11:15:45 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Red Badger
Already been mapped...


13 posted on 12/23/2024 11:22:05 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Red Badger

I wonder if the idea of Pygmies in the North Pole inspired Baum when he wrote the Wizard of Oz books.


14 posted on 12/23/2024 11:36:30 AM PST by Beowulf9 (c)
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To: Red Badger

I heard they found a fat bearded guy in a red suit living with elves!


15 posted on 12/23/2024 11:38:08 AM PST by 2nd Amendment
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To: Red Badger

Just read the Wizard of Oz was written in 1900 and they went to the North Pole in 1909. Maybe Baum inspired the mapmakers for the North Pole!


16 posted on 12/23/2024 11:38:34 AM PST by Beowulf9 (c)
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To: Beowulf9

The trip to the North Pole was envisioned many decades before the accomplishment. They knew it was there. They just didn’t have the necessary equipment to get there..............


17 posted on 12/23/2024 11:41:54 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

What I mean was that Baum’s idea of Munchkins inspired the made up stories of Pygmies.

I’m sure to travel there for exploration was there already for years.


18 posted on 12/23/2024 12:05:48 PM PST by Beowulf9 (c)
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To: HombreSecreto

Such a good movie!


19 posted on 12/23/2024 12:07:14 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Beowulf9

People fly over the North Pole every day now.................


20 posted on 12/23/2024 12:14:14 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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