The Antarctic sun
February 6, 2000
By Rep. T. Lloyd

www.polar.org/antsun/oldissues99-2000/2000_0206/conspiracy.html

Excerpts: Of all the research that takes place on this great continent, there is a suspicious lack of attention paid to certain theories that, while extraordinary, deserve closer examination. We are living on the edge of a largely unexplored land, and it's time we looked at more than just rocks, glaciers and penguins.

I am talking about evidence that has come up repeatedly, indicating that we are not the first beings to inhabit this place, nor is science the only activity here. When are we going to acknowledge that there may be more going on than meets the eye?

As everyone knows, the continent is almost completely covered by ice. What lies under that ice, miles deep in many places, is still unknown. The truth is coming out, however, as a few brave souls seek the answers to some troubling questions.

In his book, Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham Hancock presents strong evidence that Antarctica was charted long ago by unknown people, when temperatures were much warmer.

He cites a number of old maps, such as the one drawn by Oronteus Finaeus in 1531, reproduced here. Experts examined the original and its age was verified. It was made in the 1500s--three centuries before Antarctica was allegedly even sighted, much less documented. The map is startlingly accurate, depicting ice-free mountain ranges, a South Pole that's just about dead on and the Ross Sea as it would look without the ice shelf.

You can even see Ross Island.

How could someone draw such a map more than 200 years before Capt. James Cook even sailed south of the Antarctic Circle?

Hancock's answer is that it was actually mapped long ago, perhaps thousands of years earlier, and Finaeus merely copied those ancient sources.

Is it possible that a race of people or other life forms were present in Antarctica before it was covered by ice? It's a fact that long ago the continent was warm enough to support plants and animals, including a reptile called Lystrosaurus. Paleontologists say it roamed Antarctica 200 million years ago.

That may not have been the end of it.

In the under-reported world of alien sightings and abductions there is a link between Antarctica and reptile-like creatures. According to the Omega Files, compiled by "Branton," "Some 'contactees' such as Maurice Doreal claim that the reptiloids [human-like reptile creatures] in prehistoric times lived in the Antarctic region, when it was a subtropical zone, and that they were subsequently driven underground and off the planet by a race of pre-Nordic humans whose lost and long-forgotten civilization now lies buried deep beneath the sands of the Gobi Desert."

Is it possible those reptiloids evolved from the earlier Lystrosaurus--or that both creatures were some form of alien life?

According to Branton, an abductee named Alex Christopher says he saw reptiloids and Nazis working together aboard antigravity craft or within underground bases. At least one of those bases is reported to have existed in Antarctica.