Secrets and history of Antarctica. Secrets of Antarctica

Antarctica is not much different from Mars. Just more oxygen. And the cold is the same. In some places, the temperature drops to minus 90 degrees Celsius. There is only one fundamental difference - there are people in Antarctica, but not yet on Mars. But this does not mean that the ice continent has been studied much better than the Red Planet. Mysteries abound here and there...

We don't know if there is life on Mars. We do not know what is hidden under many kilometers of Antarctic ice. And about what is happening on its surface, there is only a vague idea.

Surprisingly, there are more high-resolution images of Mars than of Antarctica. You can see in detail the details of its relief only on a narrow strip in the area of ​​Queen Mary Land, where surprises were found. And it would not be bad to look at other places. Especially those that have long been legendary.

THREE MYSTERIES

The discovery belongs to Joseph Skipper, a well-known virtual archaeologist from the United States. He usually “digs” on Mars and on the Moon, looking at photographs transmitted from there. spacecraft and posted on the official websites of NASA and other space agencies. Finds a lot of surprising things that fall sharply out of traditional ideas.

The researcher's collection contains objects that look like bones and skulls of humanoids. And those that (with a stretch, of course) can be mistaken for the remains of them - humanoids - of civilized activity.

This time the archaeologist became interested in the Earth - specifically Antarctica. And I found three oddities there at once - a hole, a "plate" and lakes.

I followed Skipper's footsteps and found all the objects he found. Their coordinates are known, they are clearly visible on satellite images ice continent, posted on the Google Earth website.

Coordinates:
"Move": 99o43'11, 28''E; 66o36'12, 36''S
"Lake": 100o47'51.16''E; 66o18'07.15''S
"Flying Saucer" 99o58'54.44''E; 66o30'02.22''S

"Hole" discovered by Joseph Skipper

According to Skipper, on the ice continent there is a whole underground city. And the proof of this are the lakes with liquid water among the ice of Antarctica, as well as the huge "Hod" located on the ice continent. But who could build all this in conditions terrible cold? The answer to this question, according to Skipper, is given by his third find - a huge "plate", which may belong to aliens.

THERE HITLER hid

It is known that the Nazis were very interested in Antarctica. A number of expeditions were sent there. And they even staked out a vast territory in the area of ​​Queen Maud Land, calling it New Swabia.

There, in 1939, on the coast, the Germans discovered a striking area of ​​\u200b\u200babout 40 square kilometers, free of ice. With a relatively mild climate, with numerous ice-free lakes. It was named the Schirmacher oasis - after the German pilot-discoverer. Subsequently, the Soviet polar station Novolazarevskaya was located here.

By official version, The Third Reich went to Antarctica to build bases there to guard their whaling fleets. But there are much more interesting assumptions. Although it is difficult to call them even science fiction. A heap of some mysticism.

In short, this is the story. Allegedly, during the expeditions to Tibet, the Nazis learned that there was something inside Antarctica. Some vast and warm cavities. And in them there is something left either from aliens, or from an ancient highly developed civilization that once lived there. At the same time, in a separate bike, it was claimed that Antarctica was once Atlantis.

As a result, already at the end of the 30s of the last century, German submarines found a secret passage in the ice. And they got inside - into these very cavities.
Further, the legends diverge. According to one version, the Nazis built their cities under the ice, according to another, they conspired with the local inhabitants and settled in a free housing stock.

There - inside the ice continent - in 1945, a living Hitler was brought along with a living Eva Braun. Allegedly, he sailed in a submarine, accompanied by a large escort - a whole squadron of huge submarines (8 pieces) called the Fuhrer's Convoy. And lived until 1971. And according to some sources, right up to 1985.

The authors of the Antarctic myths also place under the ice the "flying saucers" of the Third Reich, rumors about which are saturated with numerous books, films, TV shows and the Internet. Like, the Nazis also hid these devices inside. Then they improved it and still operate it, starting from mines in Antarctica. A UFO - this is the very "saucers".

"Plate" - either alien or German

Tales about polar aliens and Germans are hard to take seriously. But... What to do with the hole, "plate" and lakes discovered by Joseph Skipper? One fits very well with the other. Unless, of course, the objects are what they look like.

UFOs can fly out of a hole in the mountains. The plate is real. Maybe even an alien. Looks icy. And as if exposed as a result of either global warming or weathering. It belongs to those guys who lived or live in the inner warm cavities of Antarctica.

Lake on the surface of Antarctica

Well, lakes are just evidence that they - cavities - exist. And warm the oases. Like the Schirmacher oasis, which is far from the only one.

Antarctica is a strange place...

By the way, Lake Vostok is not free from tales. A strong magnetic anomaly has been found on its western side. This is - scientific fact. But the nature of the anomaly has not yet been determined. Which gives ufologists the right, at least temporarily, to claim that there is a massive metal object here. Specifically, huge alien ship. Maybe crashed. Maybe abandoned millions of years ago, when there was no ice over the lake. Maybe active and just parked.

This is what ice looks like over Lake Vostok. On the left side - a magnetic anomaly and strange dunes. On the right bank - station "Vostok"

Unfortunately, the magnetic anomaly is located far from the well - at the opposite end of the lake. And it is unlikely that it will be possible to solve it soon. If it ever works out at all.

At the Vostok station in Antarctica, our scientists completed drilling at a depth of 3,768 thousand meters and reached the surface of a subglacial lake

It is already known that Lake Vostok is far from the only one in Antarctica. There are more than a hundred of them. East is simply the largest open. Now researchers suggest that all these lakes, hidden under a layer of ice, communicate with each other.

The existence of an extensive network of subglacial rivers and channels was recently reported by British scientists - Duncan Wingham from University College London (University College London) with colleagues - by publishing an article in the authoritative scientific journal Nature. Their conclusions are based on data received from satellites.

Wingham assures: the under-ice channels are as full-flowing as the Thames.

Mystery of Lake Wanda. This is a salty lake, all year round it is covered with ice. But what is amazing: a thermometer lowered into the water to a depth of 60 m shows ... 25 degrees Celsius! Why? Scientists don't know this yet. Probably Antarctica will present many more such mysteries.

Laughter, laughter, but the discovery of British scientists does not contradict the most delusional versions of the hidden Antarctic life. On the contrary, it reinforces them. After all, a network of channels located at a depth of about 4 kilometers under lean ice can connect one cavity with another. Serve as a kind of roads, which in some place may have access to the ocean. Or an entrance.

Queen Maud Land is a vast area on Atlantic coast Antarctica, lying between 20° west and 44°38" east longitude. The area is about 2,500,000 square kilometers. The territory is subject to the Antarctic Treaty.

This treaty prohibits the use of the Antarctic territories for any purpose other than scientific research. Several scientific stations operate on the territory of Queen Maud Land, including the Russian station "Novolazarevskaya" and the German station "Neumeier"

Antarctica was discovered back in 1820. However, its first systematic and in-depth study began only a century later. Moreover, the most interested researchers of the ice continent were representatives Nazi Germany. In 1938-1939, the Germans sent two powerful expeditions to the continent.

Luftwaffe planes took detailed photographs of vast territories and dropped several thousand metal pennants with a swastika on the mainland. Captain Ritscher, responsible for the operation, personally reported to Field Marshal Goering, who at that time was the head of the Ministry of Aviation and the first person in the Air Force:

"Every 25 kilometers, our planes dropped pennants. We covered an area of ​​approximately 8,600,000 square meters. Of these, 350,000 square meters were photographed."

The surveyed territory was called New Swabia and declared part of the future thousand-year Reich. Actually, the name was not chosen by chance. Swabia is a medieval duchy, which later became part of the unified German state.

The activity of the Nazis in this direction, of course, did not hide from Soviet intelligence, as evidenced by a unique document labeled "Top Secret". On January 10, 1939, he lay down on the table to the First Deputy People's Commissar of the NKVD, Head of the Main Directorate state security Vsevolod Merkulov.

In it, an unknown intelligence officer reported the following about his trip to the Reich: "... At present, according to Gunther, a party of German researchers is working in Tibet. The result of the work of one of the groups ... made it possible to equip a scientific expedition of the Germans to Antarctica in December 1938 The purpose of this expedition is the discovery by the Germans of the so-called city of the gods, hidden under the ice of Antarctica in the area of ​​Queen Maud Land ... "

"Lake": 66o18'07.15''S; 100o47'51.16''E. 1. Queen Maud Land and Schirmacher Oasis. 2. Anomalies on Queen Mary Land - a “way”, “plate” and “lake” were found here.

There is a lot of evidence that there are places in the central region of the Antarctic ice sheet where, apparently, there is water near its lower surface. Igor Zotikov, a researcher at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, spoke about how, back in 1961, he analyzed data on the ice sheet of the central part of Antarctica obtained during the first four Soviet expeditions.

The results of this analysis showed that the central regions are in conditions where the removal of heat from the lower surface of the glacier upwards is very small due to its large thickness. In this regard, the entire heat flux from the bowels of the earth cannot be completely removed from the boundaries of the "ice - solid bed" interface, part of it must be constantly spent on continuous melting near this boundary.

The following conclusion was made: melt water in the form of a relatively thin film is squeezed out to places where the thickness of the glacier is less. In separate recesses of the under-ice bed, this water can accumulate in the form of lakes of melt water.

In May 1962, the Izvestia newspaper wrote: "... It can be assumed that under the ice of Antarctica, in the area, almost equal area Europe, the sea of ​​​​fresh water spills. It must be rich in oxygen, which is delivered by the upper layers of ice and snow gradually sinking into the depths. And it may very well be that in this subglacial sea there is its own, exceptionally peculiar life ... "

There are still unexplored areas in Antarctica, says Sergey Bulat, senior Researcher Department of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics, St. Petersburg Institute nuclear physics. - The subglacial structure is very diverse, it is a typical continental relief, where there are mountains, lakes, and so on. There are niches between the continent and the ice, but they are not empty, they are all filled with either water or ice.

However, in my opinion, the existence of a separate civilization under the ice cap is impossible. After all, the thickness of the ice in Central Antarctica is over three kilometers. It's easy for anything to survive there. Do not forget that the average temperature on the surface of the continent is minus 55 degrees. Although under the ice, of course, it is warm - about 5-6 degrees below zero, nevertheless, life there is unlikely.

The area of ​​Antarctica is about 14 million square kilometers. Almost the entire continent is covered with ice. In some places, its thickness reaches 5 kilometers. And what is under it is known only about an insignificant part of the surface.

A team of scientists from China, Japan and the UK recently published the results of their 4-year study in the journal Nature. From 2004 to 2008, they drove powerful all-terrain vehicles through the most severe region of Antarctica - over the Gamburtsev mountains. And they shone it with radar. The result was a relief map of the surface with an area of ​​about 900 square kilometers.

And it turned out that once the continent was free of ice. Even 34 million years ago there were mountains and plains with flowering meadows. Like now in the European Alps.

But something happened. The researchers found a place from which a small glacier, located on the highest peak (about 2400 meters), began to grow. Gradually, he covered the whole of Antarctica. He hid several lakes under a layer of ice.

Martin Seigert from the University of Edinburgh, who took part in the expedition, is sure that frozen plants are still preserved in the valleys of the Antarctic Alps. Even small trees. It's just not possible to get to them. But you can try, for example, by drilling.

Some facts

Antarctica has at least four poles. In addition to the geographic South and magnetic, there are also the pole of cold and the pole of winds.

In Antarctica, there are such frosts that are not found anywhere else on earth. On August 25, 1958, a temperature of 87.4 degrees below zero was recorded at the Vostok station.
And the pole of the winds? It is located on the Antarctic Victoria Land. All year round there fierce winds rage. It is not uncommon for air currents to exceed 80 meters per second, leaving behind the strongest tropical cyclones...

A plane frozen in ice in Antarctica near the Russian station Novolazarevskaya

And what is under the ice of this continent? As a result of deep drilling at a depth of one and a half kilometers, scientists discovered clear traces volcanic eruptions and deposits iron ores. Diamonds and uranium, gold and rock crystal have already been found here. Each year brings new mysteries to the researchers of the Antarctic continent.

There are fewer and fewer “white” spots on the white mainland. However, while experts were working on mapping, they saw a lot of unexpected things. And pretty broke their heads to explain what they saw.

Volcanoes in the ice

This place in the west of Antarctica is well known to polar explorers - expeditions have repeatedly been here.

But if you stand on the surface, no "circles in the ice" are visible - the usual snowy plain. However, satellite images revealed just such a convex anomaly. It turned out to be an extinct volcano. There are many of them in Antarctica. And this once again proves that the sixth continent of our planet was not always icebound.

Noah frozen in ice?

And this picture was liked by lovers of everything anomalous. The picture is remarkably similar to the remains of Noah's Ark, which is said to have petrified on the slope of Ararat (see photo below). In fact, this is the area of ​​\u200b\u200bDry Valleys - the only place in it that is free of snow.

How ice rivers flow

Similar pictures can often be seen in archaeologists. Using aerial photography, they determine the contours of ancient cities covered in sand or earth.

And something similar is found in Antarctica. Alas, these are not ruins left mysterious civilization. A "river" is an ice stream that moves at a speed of several hundred meters per year. And if there are some obstacles at the bottom of the river or two rivers collide, then whirlpools begin, as in this photo.

Now there are 50 polar research stations in Antarctica from 20 countries of the planet. Russia contains 6 permanent stations and two seasonal ones.

Icy deserts, where it seemed that life was impossible... The coldest place on earth where people cannot survive without special equipment and protective equipment... Such is it - Antarctica, one of the most mysterious places on the ground. For many years, its research has been underway, but it has not been possible to get close to even a millionth of the secrets. Secrets of Antarctica are waiting for you today!

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Have you heard about the highly developed civilization of the Atlanteans, which died as a result of a catastrophe many centuries ago? Cradle great empire, which should be, judging by the description of Plato, a huge island, was never found. Some researchers suggest that it was Antarctica that was the place where the mysterious nation of demi-human demi-gods existed. But is there any material evidence, or is the whole theory based only on unfounded assumptions?

Let's go back to the 16th century for a moment. It was at this time in Turkey, called Ottoman Empire, lived Admiral Piri Reis, who, in addition to his main activity, was engaged in the creation of maps. And on one of them, long before the "official" discovery of the mainland, Antarctica is depicted. In itself, this fact is not too surprising: well, people swam there, the Vikings also got to America before Columbus ...


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However, on the map of Piri Reis, the coast of Antarctica is not at all like the one that opened the eyes of Bellingshausen and Lazarev. There are no traces of the ice shell that binds the continent. But there are mountains and rivers, and, strangely, a clear outline of the coastline, exactly corresponding to reality. This statement based on satellite imagery capable of "seeing" through ice masses.

This fact does not mean at all that the Turkish admiral actually saw Antarctica without ice. In his cartographic research, he was based on earlier schemes of the continent, compiled by the ancient Sumerians or Egyptians about 5-9 thousand years BC. Perhaps the legendary Atlantis still existed, and now the habitat of a highly developed civilization is covered with an impenetrable ice sheet. And excavations in such conditions are extremely difficult: the secrets of Antarctica are reliably covered by about 1.5 km of armor, which most likely arose due to the shift of the continent after a global catastrophe.


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The mysteries of Antarctica after its discovery interested many. Not without participation the mighty of the world of this: the German Fuhrer, who unleashed the bloodiest war, was especially interested in the sixth continent, along with Tibet and the records of the Knights Templar.

It is believed that during an expedition to Antarctica german planes discovered unusually warm places on the territory of the continent, which is now called Queen Maud Land. The Germans gave the found "paradise ice land» Another name is New Swabia. This prompted a more detailed study ice continent. As a result, submarines in 1938 managed to find an entrance to a network of caves, where, thanks to warm currents, it was quite possible to live.

From that moment on, work began to boil inside the sixth continent. The Nazis built a secret base where the most prominent politicians and eminent German scientists. Rich metal deposits hidden under the ice provided minerals not only for the underground city, but also for the homeland of the Nazis that remained overseas. And soon an oasis with fertile land was discovered, giving the opportunity to feed the ever-increasing population of Antarctica.


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After the defeat of Germany, all developments, including nuclear weapons, aircraft of an unknown design that look like flying saucers, and other projects of the brilliant scientists of the Ahnenerbe Institute, have sunk into oblivion. Many of the ruling elite also managed to escape. According to rumors, even Hitler himself was able to avoid death and hide behind the ice armor of Antarctica.

After the war, more than once expeditions were undertaken with a specific goal: to find a refuge for the Nazis among the snow-covered deserts. But their members either disappeared without a trace, or people who dared to embark on a dangerous journey were attacked by hitherto unknown objects. According to rumors, the inhabitants of Antarctica even threatened the Americans with the use of nuclear weapons, after which all attempts to explore the mysteries of the mainland came to naught.


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Antarctica is one of the most mysterious places in the world. And even if the Germans did not build a secret research center here, then where do the unknown flying objects come from, which every now and then are noticed by people leading various studies on inhospitable land?

Ufologists observing this area have discovered paranormal activity in Antarctica, indicating one thing: there are clearly traces of an extraterrestrial civilization on the mainland. Perhaps it was the secret base of aliens that became the source of rumors that the Third Reich is still alive. And under the guise of fleeing Germans, dangerous, but nonetheless belonging to human race, the Nazis, who were not at all hiding from punishment, are hiding. And the Earth has long been under the gun of alien civilizations.


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An amazing fact: there are a lot of volcanoes on the territory of the icy continent, some of which are still active. This circumstance, together with warm currents, created unusual phenomenon- a unique cave network, the temperature in which can reach quite comfortable 25 degrees. Light enters such underground formations through openings leading to tunnels, and sometimes even through the thinnest places in the ice sheet.

These conditions are quite suitable for the existence of life. Moreover, scientists from Australia have already found some of its traces: fungal and spore organisms. But at the same time, strange organic remains were discovered, clearly belonging to hitherto unknown creatures. The scientific community suggests that somewhere in the depths of the icy continent, unexplored life forms lurk that have evolved in a closed system according to other laws. And, perhaps, another human civilization will be found under the layers of frozen earth. By the way, Hitler, sending an expeditionary force to these lands, was also guided by these considerations. The Fuhrer believed that other peoples lived somewhere underground.


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Meanwhile, scientists are studying undersea world Antarctica, which is home to many amazing life forms. The most sensational discovery was the discovery of a goldfish. It is not known whether she can grant wishes, but the fact that her body is covered with the thinnest layer of precious metal is already extremely amazing phenomenon. It lives in one of the warm lakes under the ice.


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Ancient chronicles warn: the exploration of Antarctica will lead to unprecedented cataclysms. It is believed that it is the southern mainland that is the gate to hell, from where the Devil himself will come to earth. The air will be saturated with his poisonous breath, poisoning all living things. And soon life on Earth will disappear.

Legends remain legends, but in reality we do not know what dangers the ice of Antarctica poses. In addition to the very real threat of rising ocean levels, hitherto unknown viruses and bacteria may be present in meltwater coming from glaciers. It is believed that this is how SARS entered the world community.

Secrets of Antarctica long time excite people's minds. It is not known how long it will take to get closer to unraveling the secrets of the icy continent. But it is clear that the path will be long and very difficult.

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Why do expeditions to the South Magnetic Pole often end tragically, and why do participants sometimes find themselves on the verge of insanity?

The English polar explorer Robert Scott sought to be the first to reach the South Pole, but he was not lucky; Norwegian Roald Amundsen overtook him. Scott found a pennant at the coveted point, left by an opponent just a week before him. The Englishman decided to return back, without repeating the route of Amundsen, - he went through the region magnetic pole and died...

Half a century later, the Soviet expedition that founded the Mirny station in Antarctica sent a group of six explorers deep into the continent to reach the South Magnetic Pole. Only two returned. According to the official version, the cause of the tragedy was a severe storm, severe frosts and engine failure in the all-terrain vehicle.

The next group of researchers who went to the South Magnetic Pole was the American one. It was in 1962. The Americans took into account the sad experience of their Soviet colleagues - they took the most advanced equipment, 17 people participated in the expedition on three all-terrain vehicles, constant radio contact was maintained with them.

No one died on this expedition. But people returned on the same all-terrain vehicle. All of them were on the verge of insanity. The researchers were immediately evacuated to their homeland, but very little is known about what happened on the campaign.

After the Americans went to the South Magnetic Pole Soviet researchers. One of the participants in this campaign, Yuri Efremovich Korshunov, until recently lived in St. Petersburg. One reporter managed to “talk” to him about what happened on that long-standing campaign. The reporter wrote down the polar explorer's story, but failed to publish it. Korshunov, meanwhile, died.

And just recently, the story of Yuri Efremovich, replete with incredible details, appeared in the American press. We present it in translation from English.

“It was a polar day,” said Korshunov, “and almost all the time of our journey the weather was fine. The thermometer showed only minus thirty degrees Celsius, there was no wind - this is a rarity for Antarctica. We covered the route in three weeks, without losing a minute to repair the car. The first trouble occurred when we pitched our main camp at a point corresponding, by all our measurements, to the South Magnetic Pole. Everyone was exhausted, so they went to bed early, but could not sleep. Feeling a vague anxiety, I got up, went out of the tent and three hundred meters from our all-terrain vehicle I saw ... a luminous ball! He jumped like soccer ball, only its dimensions were a hundred times larger. I screamed and everyone ran outside. The ball stopped bouncing and slowly rolled towards us, changing shape as it went and turning into some kind of sausage. The color also changed - it became darker, and a terrible muzzle without eyes, but with a hole like a mouth, began to appear in the front of the "sausage". The snow under the "sausage" hissed, as if it were red-hot. The mouth moved, and it seemed to me that the “sausage” was saying something.

Expedition photographer Sasha Gorodetsky went ahead with his camera, although Andrey Skobelev, the head of the group, shouted at him to stand still! But Sasha continued to walk, clicking the shutter. And this thing ... It instantly changed shape again - stretched out in a narrow ribbon, and a luminous halo appeared around Sasha, as if around the head of a saint. I remember how he screamed and dropped the device ...

At that moment, two shots rang out - Skobelev and our doctor Roma Kustov, who was standing to my right, were shooting ... It seemed to me that they were shooting not with explosive bullets, but with bombs - that was the sound. The luminous ribbon swelled up, sparks and some short lightning splashed in all directions, and Sasha found himself engulfed as if on fire.

I rushed to Sasha. He was lying face down and… was dead! The back of the head, palms and, as it turned out later, the entire back seemed to be charred, the polar special suit turned into rags.

We tried to contact our Mirny station by radio, but nothing came of it, something unimaginable was happening on the air - a continuous whistle and growl. Never have I seen such a wild magnetic storm! It lasted all three days that we spent at the Pole.

The camera was melted, as if from a direct lightning strike. Snow and ice - where the tape "creeped" - evaporated, forming a rut half a meter deep and two meters wide.

We buried Sasha at the pole.

Two days later, Kustov and Borisov died, then Andrey Skobelev. It all happened again... First, one ball appeared - right on Sasha's Hill, and a minute later - two more. They appeared, as if condensed out of thin air, at a height of about hundreds of meters, slowly descended, hung above the ground and began to move along some complex trajectories, approaching us. Andrei Skobelev filmed, and I measured the electromagnetic and spectral characteristics - the instruments were pre-installed about a hundred meters from the car. Kustov and Borisov stood next to the carbines at the ready. They started shooting as soon as it seemed to them that the balls were stretched out, turning into a “sausage”.

When we came to our senses from the shock, the balloons were gone, the air was filled with the smell of ozone - as if after a strong thunderstorm. But Kustov and Borisov were lying in the snow. We immediately rushed to them, we thought, we can still do something to help. Then they paid attention to Skobelev, he stood with his hands pressed to his eyes, the camera lay on the ice about five meters away, he was alive, but he did not remember anything and did not see anything. He ... it's scary to remember now ... a baby. Went, excuse me, for myself. He did not want to chew - he only drank, spilling the liquid around. Probably, he had to be fed from a pacifier, but, you know, we didn’t have nipples, we couldn’t even bury Kustov and Borisov - we didn’t have the strength. I wanted one thing - to wash off as soon as possible. And Skobelev whimpered and drooled all the time ... On way back he died. In Mirny, doctors diagnosed him with heart failure and signs of frostbite, but not very severe - at least not fatal. In the end, we decided to tell the truth - too pressured by what happened, To my surprise, they believed us. But there weren't any hard evidence. There was no way to poison a new expedition to the Pole - neither the research program nor the lack of the necessary equipment allowed. As far as I understand, the same thing that happened to us happened in 1962 with the Americans. Now you understand why no one else wants to go there? Someday, maybe they will go there again. But I do not think that this will happen soon - too reliable protection is required. Such an undertaking costs millions of dollars. Even the Americans are hardly that rich - they are now, as you know, folding their Antarctic stations. The main interest today is the so-called ozone hole. If it were not for the need for constant monitoring of it, there would hardly be people there at all now.

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Antarctica is the least explored, and perhaps the most mysterious
continent on our planet. Since its discovery, secrets of Antarctica do not allow researchers and scientists to sleep peacefully
various fields of science. Everything about this mainland is shrouded in riddles,
from the climate to the very fact of the discovery of this lifeless continent. And than
the more this land is explored, the more secrets
Antarctica
captivate the minds of scientists.

Base
Nazis among the ice

The exploration of Antarctica by the Nazis began in 1938.
during 1938-1939, they organized two expeditions, which carefully
explored vast territory, which was photographed meter by meter with
air and trampled by scientists of the Third Reich. The whole area was marked
thousands of metal pennants with a swastika. Thus, one of the first secrets of Antarctica called New
Swabia. So the part of Antarctica began to be called, which the Nazis declared
territory of the Third Reich.

The development of this land was not long in coming, so from 1938 to
1943, the Nazis built the secret "Base 211". Base Building Supplies
transported mainly by submarines secret division Fuhrer's Convoy.

By the end of the war, the Nazi submarines were transferred to base 211
a bunch of secret documents, developments and relics of the Third Reich. And many
researchers claim that Hitler himself managed to escape and for a long time
hiding in the ice of Antarctica.

Is this really how things were or not? Researchers
yet to unravel this secret
Antarctica
.



What are the secret services hiding?

Another disturbing secret
Antarctica
, became Lake Vostok, located under a thickness of ice 3.8 km., and
its greatest depth is 1200 m. Just above the lake is the Russian
polar station Vostok.

After its discovery, this lake became of interest to scientists.
all over the world. Interest in him woke up after, with the help of American
spy satellites, interesting facts were obtained: in the lake area,
increased magnetic activity, the temperature of the water in it ranges from +10 to
+18, which indicates the presence geothermal source or some other
heat source. It also turned out that from the surface of the water to the ice cap
there is a cavity 800 m high. according to scientists in this space, between
water and ice, there is a completely unique atmosphere, preserved with
ancient times, and perhaps in this relatively warm atmosphere are
unique organisms and even plants. But these facts would not be so mysterious
if suddenly the US government did not classify all further research
this lake.

Until 2002, from the United States, the lake was explored by an international
a group of scientists, everything was open: published science articles on this topic,
conferences were held. All of a sudden, all the civilian scientists were suspended from
research and all further research was undertaken by the Agency of the National
United States Security (NSA). Russia also classified its research. So and
another mystery of Antarctica.

In the future, to the lake "Vostok", sent scientific
expeditions equipped with the latest technology, money for these expeditions
the governments of the United States and Russia did not spare, and naturally all this was carried out in
secret.

So, what could interest the governments of these countries in
this lake, in the middle of the ice?

Perhaps there are creatures or microorganisms in the lake with which
people never met?

There are many rumors about this strange lake, as if in it
there are all sorts of monsters and prehistoric lizards. Who knows, but the fact
what all more countries classify their research in this area,
confirms that something mysterious is going on there. And this mystery of Antarctica while not seeking to open to the general public.

anomalous
phenomena

Reports of anomalies in the South Pole region have become
to do since polar explorers first tried to reach it,
namely at the beginning of the 20th century. So, on January 18, 1912, polar explorer Robert Falcon
Scott and his comrades made it to the South Magnetic Pole, losing only one person along the way. But
the return journey, which took a different route, became for all members
expeditions, last. According to the official version, Scott's expedition died due to
severe weather conditions Antarctica. However, according to the records found,
way back, they encountered not only bad weather, but also inexplicable
anomalies in the form of incomprehensible glowing balls who killed members
expeditions one after another.

Similar secret
Antarctica
, scientists became even more interested after others
expeditions to the South Pole began to encounter incomprehensible anomalies.

So, in the late 1950s, the expedition to
South Pole, departing from Mirny station. Of the six researchers
only two returned, and only one of them was sane - Yuri Korshunov.
Who later wrote that the expedition was attacked by a huge
luminous ball, which was 15-20 meters in diameter, was able to change
color and shape, turning into something similar to a sausage with a hole in the likeness of a mouth,
which he could move. The snow under this creature instantly melted. After it
attacks left people with severe burns, and their clothes turned into
decayed rags.

Another incident occurred in 1966. American expedition
launched from the Midway station, although it returned in full force from 17
people, but half of them later ended up in a psychiatric clinic. All
the stories and records of the researchers were immediately classified.

With similar secrets of Antarctica
polar explorers encountered more than once. Anomalies in the form of balls
huge sizes or other figures, with the appearance of which various
magnetic phenomena, and snow melted, many participants saw and became their victims
research in the area of ​​the South Magnetic Pole.

This next secret
Antarctica
, got its name in 1966. "Plasmosaurs" - so, this
the deadly phenomenon was named by the American physicist Roy D. Christopher. He suggested
that "plasmosaurs" are living creatures in the form of plasma clots.

Russian scientists also agree with him. However, they believe that
this anomaly is a psychophysical bundle of energy that causes hallucinations
and striking people with high-power electrical discharges. Scientists also suggest
that these creatures appeared before the emergence of organic life on our
planet.

How much more Secrets
Antarctica
, to be found and discovered by scientists? To this question, we probably never
we can't give an answer. This mysterious continent contains many more
discoveries.

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SECRETS OF ANTARCTICA

Unique Continent

The sixth continent, discovered in 1820 by the Bellingshausen expedition, remains one of the most mysterious areas of the globe today. In my own way geographic location Antarctica is unique - it has access to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. All time zones are present here.

This is the most severe place on our planet: throughout the year the air temperature does not rise above zero degrees Celsius, the strongest winds and storms. More than 99% of the mainland's surface is covered with an ice shell up to 5 km thick. Due to its climate, Antarctica remains the last ecologically clean area on Earth.

This is the only region that does not have an indigenous population. In summer, the icy continent receives up to 4 thousand guests, tourists and employees of scientific stations. Only scientists remain for the winter - about 1200 people. In Antarctica, in fact, there is no political situation in the usual sense. There are no borders, no capital, visa regime. It is not surprising that this completely unusual situation gives rise to a mysterious halo of myths and legends around Antarctica.

There is an opinion that Antarctica is the very lost continent, which both scientists and ordinary people have been talking about for many centuries. Almost half a century ago, an article published in the Italian journal Europeo reported that American scientists had found traces of a highly developed prehistoric civilization. This hypothesis was developed by the Italian Barbiero Flavio, author of the book Civilization Under the Ice. In his opinion, the legendary state of the Atlanteans was located on the site of present-day Antarctica, its climate then was much milder and warmer. The death of civilization occurred 10-12 thousand years ago due to the collision of the Earth with a large celestial body, which led to the displacement of the axis. This explains the middle position of Atlantis between Africa, Asia and Europe in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

According to the results of research, before the north magnetic pole was in the east of Asia. Antarctica thus fell into one climatic zone with Central America, Mesopotamia, Hindustan and Egypt - cradles ancient civilizations. According to Barbiero Flavio, after the catastrophe, the Atlanteans did not move to uninhabited lands, but to the colonies located in these territories, and brought with them the fruits of a highly developed culture.

Another evolution

There is an opinion among some scientists that the bowels of the icy continent may hide unexplored life forms - a product of evolution that followed a different path than on earth. At the same time, great hopes are placed on the study of the Antarctic lake. It is an ancient sea 500 by 150 km in size, hidden under a colossal layer of ice. The first assumption of its existence was made in 1972, and in 1997, with the help of a unique drilling complex, a hole was made in the ice shell of Antarctica with a depth of 3523 m - just 200 m from the surface of the lake. If drilling products, as well as modern bacteria and microbes, do not get into the reservoir, then remained untouched for several million years, the Antarctic lake will become a storehouse of scientific data for biologists and geologists.

Another habitat for Antarctic organisms is the so-called "Dry Valleys". They are unusual in that it has not rained there for more than two million years! Many kilometers of the Victoria, Master and Taylor valleys do not have ice cover due to too dry air. According to many scientists, this is the driest place on the planet.

The Antarctic "oases" were discovered by Robert Scott in 1903. He wrote about these places: “We did not see any living creatures, not even moss or lichen ... This, of course, is the “Valley of the Dead” from biblical prophecy ...” And yet there is life here. "Dry valleys" are inhabited by the most unusual organisms. In 1978 american biologists found algae, fungi and bacteria even inside rocks!

Hitler's final resting place

One of the most amazing legends of Antarctica relates to Hitler. Some researchers deny the fact of his suicide at the end of World War II. They believe that the Fuhrer and his entourage fled from Europe and took refuge somewhere among the Antarctic ice. But the German "researchers" in 1938-39 were so hastily engaged in the "attachment" of territories covered with many kilometers of ice to their distant Reich that it actually looks too suspicious.

“... In Antarctica,” writes National Policy, “it would be practically impossible to find“ this demoniac ”of any, even the most numerous expedition. Would it be possible to comb through all these plains, alleys and mountains covered with eternal ice and snow? AT best case it would take thousands and tens of thousands of search engines with ships, planes, helicopters and special equipment. Meanwhile, in Germany, plans to create a permanent base in Antarctica began to be seriously developed back in 1938, and over the next seven years, regular flights between Germany and Antarctica began on the research vessel "Schwabia", later, with the outbreak of war, replaced by a division of submarines , which received the new name "Führer's Convoy" and included 35 submarines. Before the war, mining equipment, railroads, electric locomotives, trolleys, tractors, milling cutters for cutting tunnels in the rock mass were delivered to the construction area of ​​the Antarctic base on the Swabia ... Everything else was transported by submarines. "Base 211", founded in Schirmacher Bay and turned into a cargo transshipment port, received large numbers of scientists, engineers, and highly skilled workers.

In a short time, more than 350 thousand square kilometers of the mainland were photographed from the air, the same amount was examined, the entire territory was literally staked out with fifteen thousand metal pennants with a swastika, and on all German maps of that time Queen Maud Land was renamed "New Swabia". According to this version, Hitler and his staff escaped in submarines, as 54 disappeared without a trace during the war. German submarines, and only 11 could be blown up by mines. The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy of the Third Reich at one time dropped the phrase that they managed to build a real Shang-ri-lu of our days for the Fuhrer.

Alexander Surpin, who developed materials about the Fuhrer, notes that during World War II, inexplicable behavior of the Nazi Navy in the Antarctic region was noticed. No one was allowed in, not even whaling ships from non-belligerent countries.

And at the end of the war German city Kiel removed their weapons from the submarines and loaded containers with huge stocks of provisions, equipment and documents. Their further fate is unknown.

Famous Soviet writer and historian M. Demidenko in his work “Secrets of the Third Reich” reports that, while sorting through the top-secret archives of the SS, he allegedly discovered documents that clearly indicate that a squadron of German submarines during an expedition to New Swabia found a whole a system of interconnected caves with warm air. “My submariners,” Karl Doenitz (commander of the Reich submarine fleet) once dropped in 1938, “discovered a real paradise in Antarctica!”

Mysticism of Antarctica

At the end of the 50s, a tragedy occurred: of the six polar explorers who started to the South Magnetic Pole from the Mirny station, only two were able to return. According to the official version, the death of people was due to a severe storm and frost. However, later it was refuted by Yuri Korshunov, a participant in this campaign. He wrote: “When we got close to the magnetic pole, the weather was wonderful by Antarctic standards - a clear windless polar day and about -30 ° C. We covered the route in three weeks without a single breakdown of cars and other troubles. We set up the main camp and decided to go to bed early. However, we still could not fall asleep, we were seized by a strange, anxious feeling of impending disaster. After some time, I left the tent and, to my surprise and horror, I saw a huge luminous ball 15–20 meters in diameter about three hundred meters from the all-terrain vehicle. It jumped up and down in our direction, darkening every moment. All the comrades ran out to my screams, and the ball suddenly began to stretch, turning into some kind of sausage with a terrible muzzle without eyes and a hole that looked like a mouth. The snow hissed and melted under him, and the “monster” that had stopped jumping was getting closer and seemed to be moving its mouth. Our photographer Sasha Gorodetsky, despite our requests to stay put, went with his camera towards the terrible "guest" and began to take pictures of him. And the “sausage” suddenly turned into a long smoky ribbon, began to spin around Sasha, and a semblance of a luminous halo appeared above his head, after which he screamed and collapsed as if he had been cut down. Our senior group Andrey Skobelev and doctor Roma Kustov began to shoot at the “monster” with explosive bullets. It suddenly swelled up and exploded, disintegrating into bright sparks and short lightning bolts. When I ran up to Gorodetsky, he was no longer breathing. His face, back of his head, palms, chest and back were badly burned, and his special suit turned into smoky tatters. There was nothing we could do to help him. The camera was melted and completely damaged, as if it had been struck by lightning, and in the snow we found melted furrows half a meter deep ...

Two days later, the incident happened. new tragedy. Above the nearest hill appeared, as if condensed out of thin air, a hundred meters from the ground, the same as in last time, a ball, followed by two more. Slowly descending and moving along complex and seemingly chaotic trajectories, they approached us. Kustov and Borisov began to shoot as soon as the balls began to change shape, while Skobelev tried to take pictures. As a result, everything ended even more deplorably than last time. My consciousness became dim for a while, and when I came to my senses, I felt a strong smell of ozone in the air, as if after a strong thunderstorm. Kustov and Borisov lay in the snow, and both were dead. And Skobelev completely lost his sight and reason ...

The monotonous Antarctic landscape, the edge of eternal snow and ice, was enlivened from out of nowhere by all-terrain vehicles and figures of people walking around not far from their “ iron horses". Suddenly, a huge bluish ball fluttered out from behind the nearest snowy hill. People watched in fascination as the truck-sized ball began to change shape as it approached, turning into something oblong and serpentine with a terrible eyeless “muzzle” and a funnel-shaped “mouth”.

Realizing that something terrible could happen now, many began to hide in all-terrain vehicles, shouting to the operator to run to them as soon as possible. But he, as if not hearing their cries, continued to watch in fascination through the camera viewfinder for an unprecedented "snow" monster. And with a terrible hiss, it suddenly rose up, spun furiously in a spiral and rushed down, swallowing the unfortunate man into its womb and again taking the form of a ball. A moment later, the balloon soared into the sky, with great speed moving away. further and further. On the snow, the blackened body of the deceased operator smoked ... "

Scientists became interested in this strange phenomenon in the first half of the 20th century. It arose in Antarctica in areas close to the South Magnetic Pole of the Earth. More than once, participants in polar expeditions have seen strange visions in the form of huge balls or other figures, from which snow melted and magnetic storms arose. Some of the researchers became victims of these unknown entities, capable of killing living organisms not only at direct contact, but even at a short distance.

The first victims of these creatures were members of the expedition of the famous American polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Scott and his comrades reached the South Pole on January 18, 1912, losing only one person along the way. Moving back by a new route passing through the region of the magnetic pole, people, judging by their records, were subjected to ordeal. Apart from natural storms and bad weather, they repeatedly encountered completely inexplicable anomalies, as a result of which they died one after another. True, according to the official version, Scott and his comrades died due to the fact that they “just lost their way”, were completely exhausted by bad weather and were left without food.

In 1962, she set off American expedition from Midway station. She was equipped with the most advanced equipment. As a result, 17 researchers returned with the only surviving car. All events were immediately classified, however, given that after returning to their homeland, almost half of the participants in the campaign ended up in psychiatric clinics, it becomes clear that the case was clearly not without the machinations of the mysterious "monsters".

In 1966, the deadly Antarctic phenomenon finally received a scientific name. American physicist Roy D. Christopher called the "monsters" plasmasaurs. In his opinion, these are some similarities of electrical living beings - plasma clots that live mainly within the radiation belt at an altitude of 400–800 km. At such a height, plasmasaurs are in a rarefied state and remain invisible, however, they can approach the Earth in the South Pole region (such "miracles" have not yet been recorded in the northern region). Approaching the surface, plasmasaurs fall into a very dense environment and become already dense enough that they can already be seen.

Russian scientists generally agree with this opinion, however, they believe that plasmosaurs are clots of mental and physical energy unknown to science that cause visual hallucinations and amaze people with something like electrical discharges. In all likelihood, they really are unexplored living beings from a parallel world and originated even before organic life arose on the surface of our planet. It is likely that over time this phenomenon will cease to be a mystery with seven seals.

Terrible find

In 1999, a research expedition discovered a virus in Antarctica to which neither humans nor animals have immunity. It seems that there is nothing to worry about - a dangerous virus is in the permafrost. However, according to scientists, given that the earth is threatened by global warming, the virus can threaten humanity. terrible disaster. Tom Starmeryu, an expert from New York University, shares the gloomy forecasts of his colleagues: “We do not know what humanity will face at the South Pole in the near future due to global warming, perhaps an unprecedented epidemic will begin. Protein-coated viruses permafrost having retained their viability, they will begin to multiply as soon as the ambient temperature rises ... ”Moreover, American scientists took the terrible find in Antarctica so seriously that an urgently organized expedition is now taking ice samples, trying to find as many unknown viruses as possible in order to try to find antidote in advance. But where did the infection come from in Antarctica, where, as you know, “only ice floes and penguins” and there seems to be no one else? Completely incomprehensible. Experts only shrug their hands...

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