Feel free to post any Antarctica related content and discussions here. Since the subject of Antarctica has been discussed in various threads, I think that this one should be particularly dedicated to all intrigue surrounding the lost continent. 

Here's an article to get started: 

https://www.newsweek.com/antarctica-ice-caves-volcanoes-hidden-biodiversity-661642

Antarctica's Hidden Caves Could Be Home to 'New World' of Plants and Animals

BY HANNAH OSBORNE ON 9/8/17 AT 6:16 AM EDT

The cave systems underneath the Antarctic ice could be home to an "exciting new world" of plants and animals. After analyzing DNA retrieved from a cave system underneath the Ross Island volcano Mount Erebus, scientists at the Australia National University found samples that could not be fully identified—pointing to the presence of unidentified species living in the subglacial terrains.

The caves around Mount Erebus are surprisingly hot—geothermal heat from the volcano has led to the formation of vents, with volcanic steam hollowing out extensive and interconnected cave systems.

"It can be really warm inside the caves—up to 25 degrees Celsius [77 degrees Fahrenheit] in some caves," Ceidwen Fraser, lead researcher on the project, said in a statement. "You could wear a T-shirt in there and be pretty comfortable. There's light near the cave mouths, and light filters deeper into some caves where the overlying ice is thin."

In the study, published in the journal Polar Biology, the team collected soil samples from three volcanoes in the Victoria Land region of Antarctica, and from the subglacial caves of Mount Erebus. Their findings showed many types of moss, algae, arthropods and nematodes at all the sites, supporting the idea that geothermal areas, including caves hidden beneath the ice, can be havens for biodiversity.



At the Mount Erebus site, the team also found DNA in the soil that could not be fully identified. "The results from this study give us a tantalizing glimpse of what might live beneath the ice in Antarctica—there might even be new species of animals and plants," Fraser said.

Concluding, the scientists said subglacial caves have been found around other Antarctic volcanoes, and subglacial volcanoes continue to be discovered. "Despite recent advances in our broad understanding of Antarctic biodiversity, we still know little about life in the continent's subglacial cave systems, which may harbor diverse and complex communities," they wrote.


The evidence they found suggests these cave systems need to be investigated in greater detail, and that the "true biological diversity" in these environments is "almost certainly" underestimated.

The researchers note that the findings are not proof of new species but allow for the possibility of undiscovered ecosystems in the unexplored terrains. "The next steps will be to take a closer look at the caves and search for living organisms. If they exist, it opens the door to an exciting new world," said Laurie Connell, a co-researcher on the project.

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For every discovery like this that's made public, there's probably a dozen more that are kept hidden. 

There should be NO reason to keep a few boats with a handful of explorers/scientists/answer-seekers from poking around.

This is all the more true considering the brutal weather is its own kind of defense. 

"Wanna go explore?  Go ahead.  You'll probably die!"

Yet, its border is constantly patrolled.  Maybe they've got the really good MJ down there.  Whaddaya say, Mark79?

Somebody has MJ on the brain... this is a thread about Antarctica.

Maybe you and Mark79 need to go smoke a bowl and "chill out". Kind of like the old "peace pipe" deal.

My only real point was about Antarctica.  I just added the dig at Mark79 because he ignored my asking his thoughts about FE in the other thread you split off.

MJ isn't even the point of contention between myself and Mark79 -- it is non-existent Cooties-19 and his refusal to disclose his profession, etc.  So be it.

As I said (and you ignored):

Antarctica's weather is its own defense, so why all the warships?

I do not endorse the errors of false geology, long ages, and Darwinism present in this article. I'm posting this to show that scientists have discovered physical evidence proving that Antarctica was warm at some point in the past. The incorrect interpretation of the data by scientists who believe the errors of long ages and Darwinism does not discredit the existence of the data itself. I personally think Antarctica became the unbearably cold place that it is today after the Flood. 

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https://phys.org/news/2020-04-ancient-rainforest-antarctica-warmer-prehistoric.html


APRIL 1, 2020

Traces of ancient rainforest in Antarctica point to a warmer prehistoric world

by Hayley Dunning, Imperial College London


Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate was exceptionally warm at the time.

A team from the UK and Germany discovered forest soil from the Cretaceous period within 900 km of the South Pole. Their analysis of the preserved roots, pollen and spores shows that the world at that time was a lot warmer than previously thought.

The discovery and analysis were carried out by an international team of researchers led by geoscientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Germany and including Imperial College London researchers. Their findings are published today in Nature.


Co-author Professor Tina van de Flierdt, from the Department of Earth Science & Engineering at Imperial, said: "The preservation of this 90-million-year-old forest is exceptional, but even more surprising is the world it reveals. Even during months of darkness, swampy temperate rainforests were able to grow close to the South Pole, revealing an even warmer climate than we expected."

The work also suggests that the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere were higher than expected during the mid-Cretaceous period, 115-80 million years ago, challenging climate models of the period. 

The mid-Cretaceous was the heyday of the dinosaurs but was also the warmest period in the past 140 million years, with temperatures in the tropics as high as 35 degrees Celsius and sea level 170 metres higher than today.

However, little was known about the environment south of the Antarctic Circle at this time. Now, researchers have discovered evidence of a temperate rainforest in the region, such as would be found in New Zealand today. This was despite a four-month polar night, meaning for a third of every year there was no life-giving sunlight at all.

The presence of the forest suggests average temperatures were around 12 degrees Celsius and that there was unlikely to be an ice cap at the South Pole at the time.

The evidence for the Antarctic forest comes from a core of sediment drilled into the seabed near the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers in West Antarctica. One section of the core, that would have originally been deposited on land, caught the researchers' attention with its strange colour.

The team CT-scanned the section of the core and discovered a dense network of fossil roots, which was so well preserved that they could make out individual cell structures. The sample also contained countless traces of pollen and spores from plants, including the first remnants of flowering plants ever found at these high Antarctic latitudes.


To reconstruct the environment of this preserved forest, the team assessed the climatic conditions under which the plants' modern descendants live, as well as analysing temperature and precipitation indicators within the sample.

They found that the annual mean air temperature was around 12 degrees Celsius; roughly two degrees warmer than the mean temperature in Germany today. Average summer temperatures were around 19 degrees Celsius; water temperatures in the rivers and swamps reached up to 20 degrees; and the amount and intensity of rainfall in West Antarctica were similar to those in today's Wales.


To get these conditions, the researchers conclude that 90 million years ago the Antarctic continent was covered with dense vegetation, there were no land-ice masses on the scale of an ice sheet in the South Pole region, and the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere was far higher than previously assumed for the Cretaceous.

Lead author Dr. Johann Klages, from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, said: "Before our study, the general assumption was that the global carbon dioxide concentration in the Cretaceous was roughly 1000 ppm. But in our model-based experiments, it took concentration levels of 1120 to 1680 ppm to reach the average temperatures back then in the Antarctic."


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Here's an artist's depiction from the article of what Antarctica looked like when it was a warm continent: 



Seems like the kind of place where, thousands of years ago, people would settle down and build a civilization...

A treasure trove of links
https://www.stevequayle.com/index.php?s=36
Britain's Secret War in Antarctica
Operation High Jump and the UFO Connection
Russian docuмentary of war in the Antarctic between the U.S and nαzι Alien base
Two Large Lakes Discovered Under Antarctic Ice
Admiral Byrd's Secret Diary
The Saga Begins
Who Killed James Forrestal? Was There A Cover-up?
Nuclear Tunnel Boring Machine
Russia to Resume Vostok Drilling
Mysterious Under-Ice Antarctic Lake to Unveil Prehistoric Ocean World
Lake Under Antarctic Ice May Be Divided
Warning: Well in Antarctica May Pop Like a Can of Coke
Scary Secrets of the Third Reich’s Base in Antarctica
Antarctic Lake Yields Ancient Bacteria
Antarctic Lake's Secret Water
Was There a Prehistoric Civilization in Antarctica?
The Tragedy of Four Civilizations
The Policy Of Blood And Mysticism
Space Bug Specialist Killed in Crash
David Wynn-Williams: Applying the Lessons of Antarctica to the Study of the Stars
Operation High-Jump
USS Philippine Sea (CV-47)
The OMEGA File - Admiral Byrd And Operation High-Jump
The OMEGA File - Hitler Escaped!
The OMEGA File - Polar Defenses
The OMEGA File - Rudolph Hess And Secret German Space Base
The OMEGA File - German Submarines In The South Atlantic
An Underground Base in the Antarctica
The Vril and the Andromeda
A Battle in the Atlantic With 128 Submarines
Antarctica A nαzι Base?
An Ancient Saga
Exotic-Looking Microbes Turn up in Ancient Antarctic Ice
Thule, Vril, nαzιs, and UFOs, and Hollow Earth

It's clear that something changed about Antarctica, perhaps after the Deluge, or possibly later.  There's the fascinating Piri Reis Map from 1513 that shows Antarctica as ice-free and inhabited.  There are also maps from the same time period showing "Hyperborea", a ring of islands around an unfrozen North Pole.

As an aside, there's also the mystery of Tartaria ... which has been expunged from history for some reason.  So Tartaria seemed strange to me, but there's tons of evidence for it.  When I was a young child, my mother told me all kinds of Hungarian folks takes where the bad guys were the "Tatars", invading and pillaging Hungary.  For whatever reason Tartaria was blotted out of history.

There's so much we've been lied to about.

I am very much of the opinion that the climate of earth was drastically different in the antediluvian world, with the possibility of large plants and animal life as evidenced by fossils.

The idea that Antarctic and arctic ice are remnants of the Flood is a plausible theory.

I believe that the flash-frozen mammoths in Siberia were also casualties of the flood.  Something happened where the entire climate changed ... and quickly.  They were flooded and then frozen at the same time.  They've actually done studies where they found much higher atmospheric levels of oxygen at some point.  Whatever it was I believe also shortened the lifespans of human beings.  We'll probably learn some amazing things when we die and have full access to the truth.

Insightful 2006 Russian docuмentary ‘Third Reich — Operation UFO" has been disappeared from youtube, but is now on Bitchute. Russian with English subtitles, but well worth watching.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/gipwCRCdrg98/


Here is a written summary:
The following incident is detailed in the 2006 Russian docuмentary ‘Third Reich — Operation UFO.’ It details strange and questionable occurrences during a mission to Antarctica, carried out by American soldiers, whose bizarre and tragic consequences were described by leading military figures who carried out the mission, known as Operation Highjump. The mission was officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, was a United States Navy operation organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr., USN (Ret), Officer in Charge, Task Force 68, and led by Rear Admiral Richard H. Cruzen, USN, Commanding Officer, Task Force 68. commenced 26 August 1946 and ended in late February 1947. The personnel, Task Force 68, included 4,700 men, 13 ships, and 33 aircraft and their mission was allegedly to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV.

Byrd was ordered “to consolidate and extend American sovereignty over the largest practical area of the Antarctic continent.” The expedition ended after only 8 weeks with “many fatalities” according to news reports based on interviews with crew members who spoke to the press about the incident while passing through Chilean ports. Indeed, Admiral Byrd himself revealed in a press interview that Task Force 68 had encountered a new enemy that “could fly from pole to pole at incredible speeds”; comments that were reported in the Chilean press.

During this interview in 1947, it was reported:

“Adm. Byrd declared today that it was imperative for the United States to initiate immediate defense measures against hostile regions. The Admiral further stated that he didn’t want to frighten anyone unduly but it was a bitter reality that in case of a new war the continental United States would be attacked by flying objects which could fly from pole to pole at incredible speeds.”

In his alleged (though sometimes disputed) posthumously published diary, Admiral Byrd reported a personal encounter with a so-called Nordic being:

“We have let you enter here because you are of noble character and well-known on the Surface World, Admiral’ … you are in the domain of the Arianni, the Inner World of the Earth…. Admiral, I shall tell you why you have been summoned here. Our interest rightly begins just after your race exploded the first atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. It was at that alarming time we sent our flying machines, the “Flugelrads”, to your surface world to investigate what your race had done…. You see, we have never interfered before in your race’s wars, and barbarity, but now we must, for you have learned to tamper with a certain power that is not for man, namely, that of atomic energy. Our emissaries have already delivered messages to the powers of your world, and yet they do not heed. Now you have been chosen to be witness here that our world does exist. You see, our Culture and Science is many thousands of years beyond your race, Admiral.”

The aforementioned docuмentary made public KGB files, which had become declassified after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. These reports were composed on the order of Joseph Stalin, who requested his agents to determine exactly what occurred during this incident. While rumors that the nαzιs had established some kind of subterranean base in Antarctica related to alleged contact with ETs through the Vril Society are widely regarded as suspect, it is nevertheless true that the nαzιs had been hard at work attempting this, and in 1943, Grand Admiral Donitz did state in 1943, “the German submarine fleet is proud of having built for the Führer, in another part of the world, a Shangri-La land, an impregnable fortress.” In fact, after their surrender in 1945, continued nαzι submarine activity in the Antarctic region was alluded to by the Agence France Press on September 25, 1946: “the continuous rumors about German U-boat activity in the region of Tierra del Fuego [‘Feuerland’ in German] between the southernmost tip of Latin America and the continent of Antarctica are based on true happenings.”

John P. Szehwach, a radioman stationed on the USS Brownson, gave testimony of how UFOs appeared dramatically out of the ocean depths. On January 17, 1947 at 0700 hours, Szehwach said:

“I and my shipmates in the pilothouse port side observed for several minutes the bright lights that ascended about 45 degrees into the sky very quickly… We couldn’t i.d., the lights, because our radar was limited to 250 miles in a straight line.”

The Soviet report relates that the UFOs flew close over the US naval flotilla which fired on the UFOs, at which point the craft retaliated with lethal force. According to flying boat pilot Lieutenant John Sayerson:

“The thing shot vertically out of the water at tremendous velocity, as though pursued by the devil, and flew between the masts [of the ship] at such a high speed that the radio antenna oscillated back and forth in its turbulence. An aircraft [Martin flying-boat] from the Currituck that took off just a few moments later was struck with an unknown type of ray from the object, and almost instantly crashed into the sea near our vessel…. About ten miles away, the torpedo-boat Maddox burst into flames and began to sink… Having personally witnessed this attack by the object that flew out of the sea, all I can say is, it was frightening.”

But it’s not only Soviet intelligence that reported these strange alleged occurrences. Several U.S. intelligence agents have said the same of nαzι Germany’s acquisition of ET technology. According to former CIA agent Virgil Armstrong:

“We know that in the early parts of the war there were certain factions of the Allied forces that did not believe he [Hitler] had a secret weapon and it wasn’t until the Americans made much emphasis of this that they began to look at it seriously and indeed did discover that Hitler not only had a secret weapon, he had what we would call today a UFO or spacecraft.”

Captain Ed Ruppelt, a major U.S. military official and Chief Investigator for U.S. Air Force Project Bluebook states:

“When WWII ended, the Germans had several radical types of aircraft and guided missiles under development. The majority were in the most preliminary stages, but they were the only known craft that could even approach the performance of objects reported to UFO observers…”

In fact, astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell confirmed in 1991, the same year as the KGB’s release of these docuмents, stated that a great deal of the ET cover up was the consequence of incidents that took place during World War 2.
Lieutenant Colonel Philip J. Corso, the well-known alien whistleblower, had much the same to say of the presence of UFOs in nαzι Germany. According to Corso, who was allegedly a senior officer in charge of reverse engineering alien technology during the Kennedy and Eisenhower administrations:

“There were crashes elsewhere, and [the Germans] gathered material too. The Germans were working on it. They didn’t solve the propulsion system. They did a lot of experiments on flying saucers. They had one that went up to 12,000 feet. But where all, we and they, missed out was on the guidance system. In R&D we began to realize that this being [an ET] was part of the guidance system, part of the apparatus himself, or itself, as it had no sɛҳuąƖ organs.”

Indeed, Hermann Oberth, the father of modern rocketry, stated “we cannot take credit for our record advancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped [by] the peoples of other worlds.”