[RightWhale]

Even the US Air Force is baffled by it.

How so?

[Grand Old Partisan]

The Phoenicians sailed around Africa more than 2000 years ago, and they did it clockwise, whereby the winds would have been in their favor. It took 4 years, with annual stops to grow a crop for the next year's provisions. Sounds very plausible to me. There was no economic justification for the voyage, so it was never done again.

[Lael]

Even the US Air Force is baffled by it.

How so?

Graham Hancock's book, FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS, opens Chapter One-"A Map Of Hidden Places"-with a letter from the 8th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron (Strategic Air Command), United States Airforce, Westover Airforce Base, Massachusetts, dated 6 July 1960 to one Professor Charles H. Hapgood at Keene College, New Hampshire, responding to a request from said professor to evaluate certain sections of the genuine 1513 [Turkish Admiral] Piri Reis World Map.

Quoting Harold Z. Olmeyer, Lt. Colonel, USAF Commander, in part..."The claim that the lower part of the Map portrays the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maude Land Antartica, and the Palmer Penninsula, is reasonable. We find this is the most logical, and in all probability the correct interpretation of the map.

"The geographical detail...agrees very remarkably with the results of the seismic proflile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British Antartic Expedition of 1949.

"This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap." [italics in the original]

After noting that the Ice-cap is now about one mile thick, the Commander concludes:

"We have no idea how the data on this map can be reconciled with the supposed state of geographical knowledge in 1513." [emphasis added]