Antarctica theories

Antarctica’s remoteness and extremeness pretty much lend themselves to flights of imagination and conspiracy theories. After all, none of Planet Earth’s terra firma is left so barely explored as the White Continent’s. Herein we take a deep dive into Antarctica secrets, mysteries, surprising phenomena, and no shortage of downright zany theories about the bottom of the world. Ready? Let’s go!Nazi Germany’s Secret Antarctica Base?Among the more outlandish but remarkably persistent myths about the White Continent is that the Nazis established a secret Antarctic base there, with high-level officials retreating to this remote, icebound sanctum after Germany’s defeat in World War II.Speculation about this farfetched installation got going basically right on the heels of the war. Supposed “clues” included a Nazi expedition to Dronning Maud Land aboard the Schwabenland in 1938-1939, which proponents of the wild secret-base theory surmised may have been to scout the location for it; the appearance of two U-boats at an Argentine port in July and August 1945, months after Germany’s surrender, which fired theories they’d been transporting supplies and/or outlaw Nazis (maybe even a not-dead-after-all Adolf Hitler) to the Antarctic; and a purported (possibly apocryphal) reference by German naval commander Karl Dönitz during the Nuremberg Trials to some “invulnerable fortress, a paradise-like oasis in the middle of eternal ice.”Conspiracy theorists have also proposed that the secret 1943-1945 British Antarctic operation code-named Tabarin was really about monitoring hidden Nazi operations on the White Continent, and that the U.S. Operation Highjump of 1946-1947 had the covert mission of destroying Dronning Maud Land’s rogue Nazi base.Zanier yet, some have floated rumors that the U.S. military actually engaged with Nazi forces—maybe employing UFO technology (yes, you read that right)—during Operation Highjump, partly based on statements allegedly about flying saucers attributed to Admiral Byrd.Well, let’s move on from the nonsense to the actual facts—clearly laid out, to try and put this secret-Nazi-Antarctic-base story to bed for good, in a peer-reviewed 2007 academic paper published in Polar Record and titled “Hitler’s Antarctic Base: The Myth & the Reality.”There was indeed a 1938-1939 Nazi expedition to Antarctica, but it was an exploratory one aimed at establishing not a hidden military-fortress, but a whaling base, motivated by concern over the large territorial claims being made by Great Britain and Norway for their whaling industries.The U-boats that showed up in Argentina in the summer of 1945 had fled there after their captains learned of Germany’s surrender, and made no dashes down to Antarctica in between.Neither Operation Tabarin nor Operation Highjump were concerned with detecting or destroying secret Antarctic Nazi bases, there was no battle between Operation Highjump personnel and renegade Nazis, and the alleged reference to flying saucers made by Byrd was a mistranslation of a March 1947 article in a Chilean newspaper, wherein the admiral warned that enemy planes could potentially fly over the poles to attack the U.S.Long story short: There was no undercover Nazi redoubt in Antarctica, and indeed Nazi Germany’s presence in Antarctic waters was fleeting, never advancing beyond the Schwabenland’s

Recent whistleblower accounts and satellite imagery have sparked discussion among conspiracy theorists and researchers about the possibility of hidden structures and alien bases beneath the ice of Antarctica.Alien Base Entrances and Structures Discovered Under the IceRepeated sightings of UFO activity over AntarcticaBrian, a retired Navy crew member, and others have routinely seen silver UFOs over Antarctica, to the point where the sightings became a casual topic of conversation among flight crews.Giant 300-ft wide hole found at the South Pole, tracks leading insideIn 1985, a medevac flight crew observed a massive hole as wide as a football field with tracks suggesting significant activity, hinting at it being an entrance to a base where humans and aliens might collaborate.Huge 1.2 mile wide pyramid structure precisely aligned to compass pointsResearchers have used satellite images to discover pyramid-like structures in Antarctica, with one particular pyramid spanning 1.2 miles wide and perfectly aligned with the compass points, indicating potential intelligent design.Satellite images show entrance to large cave system with stairs and machinery tracksA Google Earth image from 2007 showed a cave entrance with stairs and discoloration suggesting the use of equipment or machinery. The image was briefly replaced, raising cover-up suspicions among those who saw it.Ruins of ancient temple complex discovered 2 miles down by film crew, video confiscatedA secret US military expedition allegedly found a pyramid temple complex two miles below the ice. The Atlantis TV crew recorded these ruins, but their video was reportedly confiscated, and they failed in their legal attempt to recover it.Door and rooms to 62-acre alien base complex found protruding from iceA Navy SEAL reported finding doors and rooms associated with a 62-acre base complex during a covert mission. The structure included a room covering nine acres, further fueling speculations of advanced civilization remnants in Antarctica.Legends and Theories of Past Advanced Civilizations in AntarcticaLegends and theories persist that advanced civilizations may have thrived in Antarctica when it was ice-free 12,000 years ago. It's suggested that traces of these civilizations could still exist in heated caverns, with possible connections to the legends of Atlantis before it was suddenly encased in ice.Evidence of Ongoing Secret Expeditions and DiscoveriesStrange debriefings of witnesses suggest major discoveries being made but ...Here’s what you’ll find in our full summaryRegistered users get access to the Full Podcast Summary and Additional Materials. It’s easy and free!Start your free trial today

Out the east coast of the United States. All of these theories are baseless and unconfirmed.Even so, ships have gone down in Antarctica in the 21st century. For example, the Canadian cruise ship named MS Explorer sank in 2007. However, its last known location was more than 3,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) from the "ice ship." The purportedly "rat-infested" Lyubov Orlova, a ship that in 2013 was abandoned and adrift in the middle of the ocean, was only 295 feet (90 meters) long, not nearly as long as the "ice ship" shape. The "cannibal rats" aspect of the ship's story didn't hold much water.Photographer Robin Smith captured this image of the Lyubov Orlova around 2012, before it likely sank in early 2013: Robin Smith published this photograph on Getty Images with a date of Feb. 23, 2012.Another famous ship, although not tied to Antarctica, was the century-old SS Cotopaxi. It was finally positively identified in early 2020 after being discovered years earlier. The SS Cotopaxi is not the "ice ship" seen on Google Maps."Ice ship" or not, the only way to definitively confirm what lies at these Antarctic coordinates is for an expedition to set sail. If that ever happens, we'll be here awaiting the big news.

With a simplified and fragile biota, but an entire continent with (potentially) large ecoregions and complex interactions.Where are humans?After 2200, humans have never physically returned to Antarctica, excluding rare periodical surveys. Their presence on Earth in the future is a question that the project can't and won't discuss. To quote The Author from All Tomorrows: " Why did they disappear? Perhaps it was a final, unimaginable war of annihilation, one that transcended the very meaning of “conflict”. Perhaps it was a gradual break-up of the united galaxies, and every race facing their private end slowly afterwards. Or perhaps, the wildest theories suggest, it was a mass migration to another plane of existence. A journey into somewhere, sometime, something else. But the bottom line is: we honestly don’t know "Where did you take the photos of your project?Photos are almost entirely made by myself: most of them are shot in my country (Italy), which possesses an incredibly varied landscape, from the frigid tundra of the Alps to the subtropical forests of Gargano. Some photos are also taken by my friends, which are always cited when necessary.