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Re: Sailing round Greenland?

Subject: Re: Sailing round Greenland?
From: "Daryl Krupa"
Date: 20 Dec 2006 07:23:52 -0800
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
D. Patterson wrote:
> "Peter Alaca" <p.alaca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:4588f7fa$0$55475$dbd4f001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > IE_Json <inger_e.johansson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
> >
> >> [...]
> >> Btw, I think it's time to realise that what we call Greenland island
> >> isn't one but at least three islands and that we do have
> >> documentation from early date.
> >
> > At least three islands?
> > Where?http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/arctic/currentmap.html
>
> Greenland's interior bedrock topography is reported to be below the present
> sea level. Following a melt of Greenland's ice cap and a rebound of the
> crust relieved of the ice cap overburden, it is anticipated there would be
> significant areas of present day Greenland's bedrock that will remain below
> the new sea levels.

  Yes, but even Hapgood doesn't think that there would then be three
islands:

http://www.pibburns.com/mewhinne/5a-6.htm

  More on the Piri Reis map, icecaps spinning out of control, and
other historical fantasies:

http://www.pibburns.com/smmia5.htm

  The smallest extent of Greenland ice in the last 200,000 yeaqrs (not
three islands):

http://www.geo.arizona.edu/dgesl/research/other/climate_change_and_sea_level/greenland_ice_sheet.htm

- 
Daryl Krupa


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