Oronteus Finaeus (1494-1555) was a celebrated cartographer who produced a map in 1531 which is claimed by some that, like the, it depicts the coast of an ice-free. Rediscovered it in 1959 ( a ) in the Library of Congress. This idea is then used to support the concept of the existence of a very early civilisation that was capable of sophisticated map making. It is then just a short step to name this civilisation ‘Atlantis’. Some, such as the Flem-Aths went further and actually nominated Antarctica as the home of Atlantis.has used the Oronteus Finaeus Map to support his contention that the Polynesians had originated in Antarctica.A more recent website ( b ), although not endorsing an Antarctic Atlantis, discusses some of these old maps in very great detail. The site is based on a number of chapters from a work-in-progress, T he A tlantis M aps: T he R ise of A tlantis and the F all of a P aradigm.
He identifies the Plain of Mesopotamia in Northern as the location of Atlantis. ( a ).( b ). M aps of the A ncient S ea K ings by, is frequently quoted as evidence of an Antarctic location for Atlantis. Hapgood’s study of ancient maps and in particular the convinced him that it showed an ice-free Antarctic. It took the to combine this map with their idea of crustal displacement to develop their theory of an Antarctic Atlantis.Although Hapgood gives no personal opinion regarding the existence of Atlantis and in fact he only mentions it fleetingly in a single short paragraph, he was convinced that his extensive investigation offered evidence of advanced civilisation during the Ice Age.Hapgood was also actively interested in parapsychology and spirit communication (a) and wrote three books on the subject.Also See:(a). The P iri R eis M ap (1513) (c) was a world map drawn on gazelle skin of which only the left-hand side still exists. It was a composite of detail gleaned from a large collection of maps collected by Piri Ibn Haji Mehmed (14), an admiral or ‘reis’ in the Ottoman navy.
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It was discovered in 1929 in the Topkapi Palace library in Istanbul by Gustav Deissmann. In 1956 a Turkish naval officer presented the map to the U.S.
Navy Hydrographic Office. From there, it was first fully investigated by Captain Arlington H. Mallery, who had spent years studying ancient maps. He is now better remembered as a controversial amateur archaeologist. Mallery concluded that the map accurately depicted an ice-free Antarctica.This map has become one of the controversial elements in the theory of an Antarctic Atlantis so strongly promoted by. They followed the views of , who, having studied a range of ancient maps, were convinced that they showed parts of Antarctica as ice-free.