List Members,
I found a nice quote from Jan Lamprecht's book from the explorer Kane who went to the Arctic in 1853:
" Here, in Dr Kane's words, is what he found: "An open sea near the Pole, or even an open polar Basin has been a topic of theory for a long time, and has been shadowed forth to some extent by actual or supposed discoveries. As far back as the days of Barentz, in 1596, without referring to the earlier and more uncertain chronicles, water was seen to the eastward of the northernmost cape of Novaia Zemlia; and, until its limited extent was defined by direct observation, it was assumed to be the sea itself. The Dutch fishermen above and around Spitzbergen pushed their adventurous cruises through the ice into open spaces varying in size and form with the season and the winds; and **Dr Scoresby, a venerated authority, alluded to such vacancies in the floe as pointing in argument to a freedom of movement from the north, inducing open water in the neighborhood of the Pole. Baron Wrangell, when forty miles from the coast of Arctic Asia, saw, as he thought, a `vast, illimitable ocean,' forgetting for the moment how narrow are the limits of human vision on a sphere." **
Previously, we have considered the same area of the Arctic Ocean Northeast of Nova Zemlya. It is the area where Nansen shot upwards towards the Pole. He and his crew were surprised **at the open water. It was open when Nansen wentthere is 1895, and when Barentz went there in 1596, and it is still quite open.
This area of open Polar sea, which seems to be a permanent feature, is another piece of deductive evidence which points to anopening to a warmer, hollow Earth. The area lies just to one side of where the opening is deemed to exist by hollow Earthers; just to one side, for example, of the 87 North, 130 East longitude that Rod M. Cluff always points out.**
A natural explanation would be that some current from within passes through that area and warms the sea.
Later,
Dean