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Ralph,
I just printed up The Last Viking West by North West. It is worth it to get familiar with all aspects of Arctic evidence. A broad background can only help.
Dharma/Dean
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The Arctic evidence in support of the Hollow Earth Theory is a good place to " specialize " and acquire some expertize. Why? Because it is easy and significant. Hey, it's scientific even!
Really, think about it. Armed with a good map which marks longitude and latitude, it isn't hard to follow the movements of the Arctic explorers who encountered indicative anomalies- who documented those anomalies- and develop a strong logical basis for your hollow Earth understanding.
I've pointed out before that the book of Marshall B. Gardner, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, is a good source of Arctic evidence. He culled all the writings of the explorers and put appropriate evidence together all in one place. Health Research has it all.
http://www.healthresearchbooks.com/categories/hollowearth.htm
In addition, the book by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, which provides some of the strongest Arctic evidence in support of the HET, is available in any book store for about twelve dollars. By now, the HET ought to be worth a $12 investment. I have gone through the book and noted the page numbers and types of of all the different anomalies. You all could conceivably just buy the book, sit down with it, and skip from page to page picking out the anomalies guided by my attached Nansen Notes, identifying them on a map, and getting a good grip of all the anomalies encountered by Nansen in a matter of two hours. It can actually be easy for you all to do some direct reading and get a working knowledge of one of the most the most significant Arctic expeditions in relation to Hollow Earth Theory.
Do it! Nansen's book is called Farthest North.
The Nansen Notes are attached above. They formed the basis of my article Seven Days North of Tibet. HugeDomains.com
Dharma/Dean
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For the Greenland Vikings to have gone a bit further North from the North West passage route and find the hollow Earth opening is not hard to imagine.
DD
Subject: [allplanets-hollow] The Last Viking West by North West
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As the twelfth century ended, the climate reversed. Ice crept southward, all over Europe snow fell lower on the mountain slopes, upland trees died. Pack-ice cluttered the coasts of Greenland, then tightened an Arctic noose to strangle movement.
Moreover, in describing recent research carried out at an Inuit site on the Burnside River south of the Kent Peninsula, Bryan Gordon of the Museum of Civilization (Nadlok and the Origin of the Copper Inuit - Climate, Dating and Seasonality) provides data that suggest the Passage may have become difficult if not impractical by 1450 A.D:
Nadlok's carbon-dated floors and levels show a 1450-1750 A.D. occupation in the Little Ice Age, a time of deteriorating climate when ocean temperature fell 1-3 deg. C and the Arctic summer front retreated 4-5 deg. of latitude. Sea ice stayed all year in sheltered Bathurst Inlet and east Coronation Gulf, inevitably disrupting sea-mammals and their hunters, but with little effect on caribou.
Nevertheless, it likely follows that prior to this time - the "Viking Age" between 800 and 1100 CE especially - that a warmer climate prevailed along at least the eastern approaches to the Northwest Passage if not its entirety. Indeed, as Charles W. Moore notes (Did 14th Century Scandinavian Explorers Visit Midwestern North America?):
For the first century or so of their Greenland colonization, the Vikings and their descendants enjoyed a reasonably prosperous and pleasant life there. Greenland's climate c. 1000 A.D. was in an extraordinarily warm phase, and the name Eric chose for his new land may not have been quite the real-estate promoter's con-job as has been assumed. Even 350 years later, after a general global cooling had altered Greenland's climate for the worse, Ivar Bardson wrote that "On the mountains and lower down grow the best of fruits, as big as apples and good to eat. There also grows the best wheat that exists." Life in Greenland was hardly the rough outpost existence we might expect....
However by 1200, climatic change allowed the arctic ice pack to creep farther southward, making navigation in Greenland waters increasingly hazardous -- even in summer. Ships came now only sporadically, and some years none called at all. In 1261, the Greenlanders felt obliged to accept union with Norway and subjection to the Norwegian crown, in return for which two ships would be sent per year. This effectively shut the Hansa markets off from Greenland trade, and sometimes even the promised Norwegian vessels didn't make it through the ice. The colonies' decline accelerated.
To what degree the warmer climate of the Medieval Warm Period may have simplified westward progress through the Northwest Passage during the earlier phases of Greenland's Viking history remains unknown, but the fact that it was warmer may shed further light on some of the northernmost Viking excursions along the western coastline of Greenland itself. As it so happens, archaeological research in the area around Coberg and Skraeling Islands on the Canadian side of Baffin Bay indicates a possible Viking presence just off the south-east coast of Ellesmere Island. In other words, at a point where the Vikings would be well positioned to make a run into the Northwest Passage and also augment their food supplies before doing so. Among other things the research in question uncovered evidence of a food production line, iron boat rivets and hints of a Viking presence as described below:
Further searches turned up box sections made of oak--a common Scandinavian wood not native to arctic Canada--parts of barrel bottoms, European-style knife blades and spear points, and medieval chain mail. In addition, a piece of woolen cloth found on Skraeling lsland reveals a weave pattern typical of Norse farming settlements in southern Greenland, founded in 986 by Eric the Red. An unlikely trade item for Eskimos, who wore tailored skins and furs exclusively, the cloth may well have reached the island on the back of a Viking. He may not have been the first Norseman to arrive, however. An enigmatic two-inch carving from an early 12th-century house may be a rough portrait of an earlier Viking visitor. Clearly native in style, the carving exhibits features the author believes are distinctly Norse: straight eyes, a straight mouth, a pointed chin, and what looks like a cap. A copper blade taken from the floor of the same house may confirm his hunch. If tests show the metal did not originate in North America, they may indicate that Norsemen encountered Eskimo settlements in the Smith Sound region even before the two peoples came in contact farther south in Greenland. Viking trading and exploration parties had reached Labrador by 1000. But clues of voyages farther north at this time were not discovered until three years ago, when the author began uncovering Norse artifacts in arctic Canada. (Peter Schlederman, "Eskimo and Viking Finds in the High Arctic", National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 159, No. 5, May 1981:578)
Ralph,
This is no insignificant article. this article substantiates that the Greenland vikings traveled North along the Canadian Arctic and that they could winter up there. I mean, from that point on, it would not be hard for them to notice the opening. Maybe they saw the same mirage as MacmIllan. And since they had their boats with them, they would have gone and checked it out. then they would have gone back for the rest.
To speculate that they found it from Greenland is one thing, to find the remains of Viking long houses up along the Canadian Arctic and speculate that they found the opening from there is quite another.
DD
Subject: [allplanets-hollow] The Last Viking West by North West