This southern continent, covered with a kilometer layer of ice, was not always like this. But it’s not customary to talk about this. Moreover, talk about the secrets of Antarctica. They are simply hidden from us.
There is a time portal in Antarctica
A group of researchers from the USA and Great Britain accidentally stumbled upon a mind-blowing discovery in Antarctica. While working on a joint weather research project, the team witnessed the emergence of rotating time vortices.
US physicist Marianne McLane allegedly testified that she and her colleagues saw a “rotating gray fog” in the sky above their heads. They initially did not attach much importance to this, qualifying the phenomenon as an episode of a polar storm.
However, despite the gusts of wind and fast-moving clouds overhead, the strangely swirling gray mist remained motionless. Deciding to investigate the strange phenomenon, the group took one of their weather balloons and mounted a meteorological instrument on it to obtain data on temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, wind speed, as well as a scientific chronometer to record time records.
After connecting the ball's cable to the winch, they released it. The balloon and instrument flew up and were immediately swallowed up by a strange whirlwind. Using a winch, they pulled him back out with great difficulty, as if someone was holding him there by force. When they checked the data received, they were stunned by the chronometer readings. It reflected a date many years ago: January 27, 1965. McClain claimed that the experiment was repeated several times with the same result.
Later, according to her, the contents of the entire episode were classified and received the code name “The Time Gate” in military intelligence documents.
Mysterious glow from under the ice of Lake Vostok
The incredible reports have confused the governments of those countries whose observation stations operated in Antarctica. Scientists panicked about strong light sources under the ice. It was the tone of the radiograms that confused me the most . Antarctic observers were worried about their safety, as if they were, in fact, seriously threatened by something, and urgent measures were required. Reports of not only light but also sound anomalies were received from stations located in the area of the subglacial Lake Vostok.
Scientists discovered freshwater lakes under the ice shell of Antarctica in 1996. Lake Vostok is located under 4 kilometers of ice and never freezes. The results of thermal scanning showed that the water temperature in the lake is quite high - from 10 to 18 degrees Celsius. This means that there is some kind of heat source to heat it. Moreover, during the study, data was obtained that between the water surface of the lake and the ice dome there is an empty cavity, about 800 m high. A space in which almost ideal conditions for life are created. Did nature work this way or are these the fruits of someone’s conscious efforts?
Another mysterious circumstance is abnormally high magnetic activity near the southeastern shore of the lake. Her sources are also unknown. Information about the results of the latest research on Lake Vostok is classified. In 2007, drilling was suspended at a depth of 3665 m. It resumed years later and on January 5, 2012, at the Vostok station in Antarctica, our scientists, at a depth of 3768 m, completed drilling and reached the surface of the subglacial lake. Then they solemnly presented a flask of water to the president of the country and again there was silence.
An unknown mechanism was found in Antarctica
Until 2000, on the American side, an international team of scientists was engaged in research on the lake, but then the US National Security Administration took over the reins. NASA media relations spokeswoman Deborah Schingteller said that the replacement was dictated by national security considerations. Immediately after these words, one of the NASA managers took a place in front of the microphone, clarifying that “the research was interrupted to ensure the ecological safety of the environment.” Since then, none of the journalists have been able to contact Deborah Schingteller and find out what kind of safety she meant .
There was a lot of talk that back in 2001, the United States sent an expedition to the area where the anomaly was discovered, equipped with drilling rigs and heavy equipment for excavation. They were confirmed in the book of the American researcher Terence Ame “Secrets of the Universe. 25 true stories from time and space."
In April 2001 American spy satellite discovered an ancient structure or apparatus, which lay trapped within miles of cruel Antarctic ice. A secret excavation project for the site was launched immediately following the discovery.
News of increased US activity in Antarctica has reached the ears of the European elite.
"If this is something that the US military has built in the depths, then they are violating the international Antarctic Treaties," the aide said. Nicole Fontaine, then Speaker of the European Parliament. - If not, then this is something that has existed for at least 12 thousand years, that’s how long ice has covered Antarctica. Then this can be called one of the oldest artificial structures on the planet. The Pentagon must heed calls from Congress and reveal what is being hidden."
The US federal government and the Pentagon ignored the calls.
Some military observers claimed that robotic devices were immediately sent to the South Pole. There have been speculations that the US Air Force even transported a huge nuclear tunnel-builder to the secret C5 base in Antarctica.
News soon emerged of covert and urgent medical care being provided to some unnamed members of the Arctic expedition. As a result, they were evacuated in the depths of the Antarctic winter. There were no official comments.
The magnetic anomaly on Lake Vostok, after this incident, intensified significantly. Russian scientists who observed it were shocked and puzzled.
Meanwhile, the American military airfield continued to hum with activity, with flights coming and going to Antarctica at a breakneck pace. Heavy equipment, quite exotic, appeared on the gloomy Antarctic glaciers.
When the American and European media put a lot of pressure on the American government and military to get at least some plausible information, the September 11 terrorist attack occurs... The mysterious events in Antarctica were forgotten for a long time.
Scarce information was leaked to the press that in December 2006, the US Air Force, as part of Operation Deep Freeze, carried out large-scale parachute landing of 40 tons of cargo straight to the South Pole with the help of heavy military transport C-17 Globemaster III...
bolivar_s wrote in June 20th, 2018Unsolved mysteries of Antarctica
Researchers have always been interested in such a mysterious continent as Antarctica. Many years have passed since the discovery of this continent, but very little has been learned about it. In March 2002, two twin NASA satellites were launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome under the GRACE program, which were supposed to measure the Earth’s gravitational field. These data are used in climate studies, in the search for minerals and in the study of faults in the earth's crust and volcanic activity.
And while flying over Antarctica, satellites recorded an unexpected gravitational impulse. A powerful positive gravitational anomaly was discovered. It came from a huge subglacial space with a diameter of approximately 500 kilometers. Above him, the snow-covered plain of the Antarctic glacier, up to 4 thousand meters thick, stretched for thousands of kilometers.
An anomaly unique to Antarctica is located in an area called Wilkes Land. Here, in 2006, the research team of Ohio University professor Ralph von Frese identified the presence of a giant crater, two and a half times larger than the Chicxulub crater in Yucatan, created by the meteorite impact that is believed to have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Using radar, a huge, extremely dense, presumably metallic mass, approximately 300 kilometers wide and 848 meters deep, was found in this crater. At first, there was an assumption that this “pancake” could be a concentration of magma that splashed out from the bowels of the earth. But this hypothesis was soon rejected. Then scientists started talking about the possibility of the remains of a huge asteroid lying under the ice of Antarctica. But how could the Earth survive a collision with such a monstrous mass?
Antarctic researchers are inclined to believe thatthere is a certain cosmic body in Wilkes Land.
But today it is almost impossible to get through to it. To do this, it would be necessary to create a special station and import tons of equipment, which in terms of costs could approach the estimated cost of a manned flight to Mars. Moreover, scientists would have to survive at a winter temperature of minus 80 degrees.
Some say that this potentially dangerous anomaly should not be touched at all. And supporters of the theory of alien civilizations visiting Earth believe that hidden under the ice of Antarctica is a massive spaceship serving as a base for aliens, or even a portal to the “inner Earth.”
The mysterious Antarctic anomaly was remembered again at the end of December, after US Secretary of State John Kerry suddenly visited Antarctica . Rumors immediately appeared that Kerry allegedly visited a secret alien base located in a recently discovered pyramidal mountain.
In addition, in the new year at the Russian Vostok station they are going to resume research on the largest Antarctic Lake Vostok, located under the station, which has a depth of up to 1200 meters. This is a kind of Antarctic Baikal. There are plans to reach the lake again using new drilling technology.
Bacteria unknown to science have already been found in water samples from the lake where hot springs flow. But no less intriguing is the significant magnetic anomaly recorded by Columbia University scientists on the southeastern shore of the lake. It differs from the background magnetic field by more than a thousand nanotesla.
Research participant Michael Stadinger suggested that this could be caused by the very thin earth's crust in the lake area, but his colleagues believed that the proximity of the hot earth's interior would, on the contrary, heat the rocks and thereby reduce the level of the magnetic field.
As a result of scientific disputes, a theory arose about the location of the remains of an ancient city with its metal structures on the shore of the lake. They even began to talk about the fact that the legendary Atlantis was once located on the site of Antarctica.
American scientists who worked at NASA together with the outstanding German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun say that he was convinced that Hitler was right,who called Antarctica “Atlantis under the ice.”Perhaps it was this information, coming from captured Germans, that prompted the United States to undertake a still unparalleled operation to capture Antarctica in 1946.
In 1946-1947, the US Navy's Operation High Jump unfolded. A flotilla of 13 ships with 33 aircraft, including an aircraft carrier, set out to secure American control over most of Antarctica.
Perhaps the US command believed the myths that Germany could equip its secret base in the bowels of the continent and transport there some of the advanced military technologies. They say that American sailors were allegedly looking for camouflaged entrances to the subglacial world. By the way, at the tops of the peaks of a half-swept mountain range, caves with entrances resembling the profile of UFO saucers were noticed.
Some of the scientific data obtained during Antarctic research is not subject to disclosure.It is difficult to imagine the immensity of this gigantic uninhabited world with an area one and a half times larger than the United States, where just one unprotected breath of icy air burns the bronchi. Scientists suggest that there are unknown forces on this continent, which, for example, move the ice mass that stretches over thousands of kilometers, containing 70 percent of the earth's fresh water.
Despite the extreme cold, even this ice contains bacteria, although there are very few of them compared to ordinary sea water - 300 per cubic meter. millimeter of ice. Scientists are also intrigued by the incomprehensible lights that appear over the icy desert. They were also observed by our researchers at the Vostok station.
It is not clear why the oldest Antarctic mountains on our planet still exist, almost entirely buried under ice and snow. The Gamburtsev Mountains have long outlived their geological time, according to geophysicist and professor at Columbia University Robin Bell.
Robin, who has long explored these mountains hidden under the ice, says that the Gamburtsev Ridge, discovered by Soviet scientists, is between 900 million and a billion years old. These mountains had to fall apart. For example, the lifespan of the Alps will be only about 100 million years. There is only one not very convincing explanation: the mountains experienced rejuvenation during the tectonic cataclysms that tore apart the ancient continents.
Professor John Priscu from the University of Montana spent 27 years in the field in Antarctica and concluded that the Antarctic ice sheet behaves like a living organism. It is pierced by microscopic veins of liquid water, which serve as a refuge for amazing bacteria.
And ancient bacteria, 420 thousand years old, found in ice samples recovered from three-kilometer depths, amazingly quickly began to show signs of life. They began to grow in the meltwater. "We don't know if they were hibernating or if they were just living very slowly," Priscu said.
Biologists ask: Why are the creatures that live in Antarctic waters so different from everyone else on the planet? Many of the usual inhabitants of the earth's seas and oceans are absent here. The ocean is almost unknown, located under the multi-meter ice cover that borders the continent.
However, the more science understands Antarctica, the more questions arise.
Antarctica, as you know, was discovered by Russian sailing ships under the command of Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev. This happened 195 years ago, on January 28, 1820. For two centuries, people traveled the length and breadth of the harsh continent, making a lot of amazing discoveries.
The most important of them, by the way, breaks the established perception of Antarctica as a single part of the land. Nevertheless, the remaining mysteries are enough, perhaps, for many generations of polar explorers and scientists.
They have tried to challenge the primacy of our navigators more than once. The Americans insist that the continent was discovered by seal hunter Nathaniel Palmer. Although a simple comparison of ship's logs breaks this version. The sloop "Hero" approached the coast of Antarctica only on November 17, 1820, that is, ten months after the Russian expedition.
What does the ice hide?
Bellingshausen and Lazarev, most likely, were also not the first people to see Antarctica. The fact that our ancestors could have been here much earlier is evidenced by ancient maps on which the continent is depicted in convincing detail. Moreover, there is no ice on it yet!
In fact, Antarctica is a fairly compact archipelago. The largest piece can be called a continent. To the west, across the strait, there are islands - large, indented by fjords, plus small placers, as if in the Aegean Sea.
All this is clearly visible on the subglacial relief maps constructed by specialists. However, at present, both the land and the sea surface with straits are covered with a snow cap, in some places reaching four kilometers in thickness. In what centuries did Antarctica become so icy?
According to the portolan, which in 1513 was copied from some ancient sources by the Turkish admiral Haji Muhiddin Piri ibn Haji Mehmed (aka Piri Reis), Antarctica is completely free of ice. Rivers flow, forests grow... The legacy of the Ottoman navigator was discovered in 1929.
Piri Reis Map
Later, when, having recovered from the Second World War, leading states began large-scale studies of the southern continent, seismologists began to clarify the coordinates of the lands lying under the ice crust.
Portulana was shown to military cartographers—their verdict was reported to historian Charles Hapgood by U.S. Air Force Col. Harold Z. Ohlmeyer: “At the bottom of the map, the geographic features show a very marked resemblance to the seismic scan data of the 1959 Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition of the actual geological terrain beneath the glacier there.
This indicates that the coast was mapped before it was covered with ice. The glacier in this region today is about a mile thick. We have no idea how the data on this map could correlate with the supposed level of geographical knowledge in 1513."
Scientists rushed through the archives to look for other similar evidence. And they discovered that Antarctica is present on many maps, including the one created by the Frenchman Orontius Phineus in 1532, and also on the famous “Planisphere” by Cantino (1502) and many others. The degree of glaciation was different everywhere, from which the researchers made a sensational conclusion - people had previously seen Antarctica, both free from the “shell” and in the process of its formation.
Map of Oronteus Finius, 1531
According to scientists, these Renaissance maps are copies of works of ancient times. Charles Hapgood writes that on the Piri Reis portolan, the longitude and latitude of the coastlines are determined an order of magnitude more accurately than medieval European and Arab cartographers, as well as their colleagues who lived during the heyday of Greco-Roman civilization, could.
In any case, by the time of the Russian expedition the existence of Antarctica in Europe and the North American United States was guessed at, its location was approximately known. The information background on the eve of the campaign of Bellingshausen and Lazarev was somewhat reminiscent of the eve of the discovery of America - then, too, many believed that if you sail for a long time after the setting sun, you will inevitably meet land. (True, for some reason no one succeeded in this before Columbus.)
So it was in the 18th century: images of the ice-free southern part of the land circulated everywhere among sailors and geographers. Such maps, for example, were used by James Cook when, during his second circumnavigation of the world, he tried to reach Terra australis. But his wooden vessels were blocked by icebergs. The Russians were more fortunate - the sloops Vostok and Mirny were able to slip further south, discovered Antarctica and circled around it.
To tell the truth, there was nothing special to rejoice at: a kingdom of ice and cold, without signs of land and harbors convenient for colonization, Russian sailors said. Interest in the mainland faded for a long time. Only from the end of the 19th century, in anticipation of an unprecedented industrial revolution, pioneers, equipped by imperialist cabinets and young raw material monsters, flocked there.
Finally, in the winter of 1911-1912. The detachments of the Norwegian Roald Amundsen and the British Robert Scott, moving from different ends of the continent, almost simultaneously reached the South Pole...
In search of the Grail
An important role in the latest research in Antarctica belongs, oddly enough, to the Nazis. The Fuhrer, a possessed mystic, spared no expense in studying the mysterious continent. As part of a project to search for lost ancient knowledge, a number of expeditions were sent to the distant southern latitudes. Hitler was clearly looking for something specific. But what? Most likely, the leaders of the Ahnenerbe (“Heritage of Ancestors”) society had information about the catastrophe that caused the glaciation of the archipelago continent; they hoped to find traces of highly developed civilizations here and gain access to their military secrets.
“In the mythology of all peoples of the globe, without exception, there is evidence of the Great Flood. Everyone remembers him, from the Eskimos to the inhabitants of the highlands of Tibet - more than 500 almost identical myths and legends have been recorded. As a result of the catastrophe, they say, new mountains rose, seas or plains appeared, “the stars moved out of place,” and the sun began to rise on the other side of the horizon. Geophysicists explain this fact by such a phenomenon as the “slippage” of the earth’s crust, which floats on the surface of liquid magma.
Under a certain influence, it can indeed move, science allows this. Once upon a time, Antarctica was much closer to the equator. But as a result of the flood, the poles shifted, the climate changed, some peoples died, others were forced to migrate thousands of kilometers,” explains Andrei Zhukov, a historian and specialist in pre-Columbian America.
New Swabia on the map of the German Antarctic expedition of 1938-1939. The dotted line indicates the studied area of the mainland.
In the late 1930s, the Germans founded a scientific base and colony called “New Swabia” on the territory of Dronning Maud Land, the part of Antarctica that Norway claims, thanks to Amundsen’s campaign. The further fate of the settlers is hidden in the darkness of the Third Reich, but the strange activity of the German fleet in the southern latitudes is not denied by any serious specialist. They also say that in 1947, real fighting took place here.
One side is known - this is the squadron of the American Rear Admiral Richard Byrd. “For some reason, the respected polar explorer went on another “research” expedition, taking with him an aircraft carrier with a large “wing” of airplanes and helicopters, two destroyers, a landing transport, a submarine, an icebreaker and several more support vessels. In total - 13 ships. About 5,000 people took part in Operation High Jump. It doesn’t look very much like science, it’s a powerful strike force.
Not everyone returned home. The Americans, who landed right on Queen Maud Land, lost a destroyer, about half of their carrier-based aircraft and about 400 personnel,” says captain first rank, Doctor of Historical Sciences Dmitry Filippov.
According to a military historian, the Yankees hastily retreated. And at congressional hearings, Richard Byrd spoke about a certain terrible threat looming over humanity - almost flying saucers, emerging from nothing and practically invulnerable. Newspapers wrote about the clashes at that time, and members of the expedition gave interviews. It’s just not clear how much American censorship corrected them...
One of the versions is that the Americans fought with the Germans, or more precisely, with Hitler’s remnants evacuated to “New Swabia.” “The Germans had a so-called Fuhrer convoy; a number of submarines from it surrendered in South America in May 1945. The prisoners confirmed that shortly before the surrender, documents and relics of the Third Reich were loaded on board some of the submarines. They also accepted passengers who hid their faces.
The final destination was Antarctica, and they followed a familiar route, which they had already taken more than once. And Karl Doenitz, the head of the Kriegsmarine, claimed back in 1943 that his sailors had discovered some kind of “paradise”, and that on the other side of the world some kind of impregnable fortress had been created for the Fuhrer,” says Dmitry Filippov.
Subpolar paradise
No matter what mythology surrounds the recent past of Antarctica, its present and foreseeable future are much more important for us. Quite active volcanic activity is observed on the sixth continent. Thus, in the crater of the active Erebus volcano there is a lava lake - a unique phenomenon, because, despite the severe cold, it never freezes. This suggests that there is a constant influx of enormous energy from the depths of the Earth. This means that there may be thermal springs under the ice.
At the beginning of 2010, scientists from Russia, the USA and Norway discovered many hot geysers on the ocean floor a thousand miles from the coast of Antarctica. Reservoirs hidden from human eyes were also found.
On February 5, 2012, at a depth of 3769.3 meters, Russians from the Vostok station using an electric drill reached the surface of the largest subglacial lake. Its area is about 16,000 square meters. km, the length of the coastline is more than a thousand. The lake was named Vostok, it is on all maps of the ice continent.
On January 26, employees of the Russian Antarctic Expedition made a repeated penetration into the subglacial lake. This body of water is “sterile”; at a depth the pressure exceeds 300 atmospheres. But that doesn't mean anything yet. The release of warm water into other subglacial lakes can form huge cavities with a stable warm microclimate. Ancient life could have survived there. Hollywood is actively imagining in this direction - remember, for example, the blockbuster “Alien vs. Predator”?
“Before the disaster, Antarctica was a prosperous region. According to scientists, the continent was located 30-35 degrees “higher”, that is, not in the polar latitudes. True, such calculations were made “at the tip of a pencil”; they need to be double-checked and the dates of the catastrophe, which are currently attributed to the 6th-12th millennia BC, clarified. And the causes of the disaster - the fall of a huge meteorite into the Pacific Ocean - have not yet been proven. However, the flood is a fact, and so is the pole shift. Theoretically, in Antarctica, for example, the same Atlanteans could live, representatives of a high-tech civilization, whose traces rest under the thickness of the ice. Otherwise, where did the maps come from, from which medieval craftsmen drew the stunningly accurate contours of the sixth continent, green and populated?” — researcher Andrei Zhukov summarizes.
Antarctica is the sixth continent of our planet. The coldest and harshest place on Earth. Almost 200 years have passed since the Russian navigators Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discovered this continent. But the mysteries that the ice cover of Antarctica holds beneath it have not yet been solved. Some people believe that other life is hidden in the continental mass of ice. Others are confident that answers to questions about the origin of the Earth are stored there.
It is possible that each of the inquisitive researchers of Antarctica is right in his own way. There is no other way to explain the series of mysterious events, partly documented, that took place here in the mid-20th century. And these events are still the main secret of the sixth continent of our planet.
In 1959, the Soviet expedition that founded the Mirny polar station in Antarctica sent an expedition of eight researchers deep into the continent to reach the south magnetic pole. Only three returned. According to the official version, the cause of the tragedy was a severe storm, severe frosts and engine failure of the all-terrain vehicle.
In 1962, polar explorers from the United States went to the South Magnetic Pole. The Americans took into account the sad experience of their Soviet colleagues, so they equipped 17 people for the expedition, already on three all-terrain vehicles and with constant radio communication support. No one died on this expedition, but people returned on one all-terrain vehicle. They were all on the verge of insanity. The researchers were unable to explain anything clearly and they were immediately evacuated to their homeland. 
Much later, Soviet polar explorer Yuri Korshunov, in a conversation with a reporter, tried to tell what happened with the expedition of the Mirny station. Korshunov was one of those who survived the trip to the magnetic pole. According to the polar explorer, the group was attacked by luminous flying objects resembling disks. An attempt to remove the anomalous phenomenon ended in failure. The photographer and camera were destroyed by a beam sent from a flying object. Those who began to repel an attack from the air with hunting rifles also died. The reporter failed to publish this story.
Meanwhile, Korshunov died. And only recently the revelations of the Soviet polar explorer became known to the Americans. They immediately connected this story with another Antarctic expedition sent from the Norfolk naval base in 1946. It was a very strange expedition. It was fully funded by the Pentagon and even had the military name “High Jump”. The expedition was commanded by the famous polar explorer Admiral Richard Byrd.
Admiral Byrd has a powerful naval group under his command. An aircraft carrier, twelve surface ships, a submarine, more than two dozen airplanes and helicopters, about five thousand personnel. Agree, this is an unusual composition for a scientific expedition. Indeed, the expedition included only twenty-five scientists. The rest are military. Among them are almost four thousand Marines.
Before going to sea, Admiral Byrd declared at a press conference: “My expedition is of a military nature!” Although he did not mention the details, some journalists suggested that Bird's mission was to search for and eliminate a top-secret Nazi base located somewhere in the southernmost latitudes.
This was the time when the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition were actively discussing the mysterious disappearance of the surviving party functionaries of the Third Reich after the surrender of the German army. And also the loss of gold reserves and high-tech developments of Nazi Germany. Different versions have been expressed. To the point that the Nazis could have hidden somewhere in Antarctica, where they had built secret shelters in advance.
At the end of January 1947, an American expedition approached Antarctica and began conducting aerial reconnaissance of the mainland in the area of Queen Maud Land. Several hundred aerial photographs were taken in the first weeks. And suddenly something mysterious happens. The expedition, designed to last six months, barely reaches the icy continent, hastily winds up and leaves the shores of Antarctica in panic.
The Pentagon is receiving disappointing reports. A destroyer, almost half of the carrier-based aircraft, and dozens of sailors and officers were lost. A member of the emergency investigative commission of the US Congress, Admiral Byrd stated literally the following: “In the event of a new war, America may be attacked by an enemy who has the ability to fly from one pole to another with incredible speed.”
Who put the American squadron to flight? A year and a half before this event, two German submarines from the so-called “Fuhrer convoy” surrendered to the authorities in the Argentine port of Mar del Plata. The tasks of this top-secret compound still remain a deep secret. The submarine crews were interrogated with passion. But it was only possible to obtain testimony from the commander of the submarine with tail number Q530.
Three weeks before the end of the war, the submarine with tail number Q530 left the keel and headed for Antarctica. On board the submarine were passengers whose faces were covered with bandages, as well as relics of the Third Reich. The commander of another boat, U977, Heinz Schäfer, during interrogation, said that a little later he repeated the route of the submarine with tail number Q530. Investigators also managed to find out that German submarines repeatedly went to Antarctica. But why exactly there? 
There has long been a version that there was once a single supercontinent on Earth, Gondwana. It existed about 500 million years ago and united almost all the land located in the Southern Hemisphere. Where did this supercontinent go? Divided into several continents as a result, for example, of geological rupture and rapid shift of tectonic plates. Antarctica is one of these continents. And, quite possibly, it may even be part of Atlantis.
This idea was suggested by Plato. According to his calculations, the size of the missing civilization fits the parameters of Antarctica. In addition, two centuries ago, a map of the Turkish admiral Muhiddin Piri Bey, compiled in 1513, was found, where Antarctica is depicted without ice cover. Piri Bey testified that when drawing up the map he used exclusively ancient Greek sources.
Adolf Hitler seized on the idea that the secrets of the Atlantean civilization could be hidden under the ice cap of the sixth continent. The Nazis, as you know, were actively engaged in the search for ancient knowledge and high technology of their ancestors. The leadership of the Third Reich understood that they would not be able to win future wars due to the size of the army. Hence the numerous expeditions of the secret society to Tibet, Latin America and, finally, to Antarctica.
Hitler sent several groups to search for secret knowledge on the icy continent. To maintain complete secrecy of the mission, the researchers used exclusively the submarine fleet. But after one of the first expeditions, the commander of the Kriegsmarine, Admiral Karl Dönitz, declared: “My submariners have discovered a real earthly paradise!” In 1943, at the height of the war with Russia, Grand Admiral Dönitz uttered another no less mysterious phrase: “The German submarine fleet can be proud that on the other side of the world it has created an impregnable fortress for the Fuhrer!”
Not long ago, huge lakes were discovered under a kilometer-long layer of ice in Antarctica. The water temperature in them is +18 degrees. Above the surface there are dome-shaped vaults filled with warm air. There is an assumption that from these lakes, constantly heated from below, real rivers of warm water flow into the ocean. Over thousands of years, they could create huge tunnels under the ice. From the ocean side, diving under the coastal ice, any submarine can easily enter there. It seems that this is what Admiral Dönitz had in mind when he spoke of an impregnable fortress for the Fuhrer on the other side of the world.
Judging by the discovered documents, the Nazis actually planned to create a top-secret training ground in Antarctica. It received the code name "Base-211" or 
New Swabia and, supposedly, already from the beginning of 1939, special ships loaded with mining equipment, railway and construction equipment reached the shores of the icy continent. Scientists, engineers, and highly qualified workers began to arrive there. Why did the Nazis need such a base?
There are different hypotheses. It is possible that the Germans planned to keep the South Seas under military control. Some people believe that they were looking for weapons-grade uranium in the depths of Antarctica. There is also an interesting opinion - a shelter was built there for the elite of the Third Reich in case of complete defeat in the coming world war. At the same time, adherents of the latter version claim that, supposedly, already in the early 40s, the transfer of future residents of Antarctic New Swabia began. Not only scientists and specialists, but also party functionaries and high-ranking government officials. And that some secret productions were sent there.
By the way, immediately after the surrender of Germany, the Americans, who were actively recruiting scientists to work in the United States, were puzzled by the fact that thousands of highly qualified specialists of the Third Reich disappeared without a trace. About a hundred submarines of the German Navy were also missing. Neither people nor boats were listed on the lists of military casualties.
All this could not but alarm the White House. In addition, Allen Dulles's department received interesting information from German submariners captured in Argentina. The version of the existence of a secret Nazi base in Antarctica found more and more confirmation. This base had to be found and destroyed as the situation progressed. That is why, at the end of 1946, a so-called scientific, but in fact military expedition the size of a squadron under the command of Richard Byrd, set off for the shores of the sixth continent.
But it was not there. Having barely reached the land of Queen Maud, the expedition was attacked. But by whom? The pilots talked about flying disks jumping out of the water and attacking them, rays incinerating all living things, and strange phenomena of mass mental disorder of people. Isn’t it true that the descriptions of the event have something in common with the story of polar explorer Yuri Korshunov? Only Soviet researchers were attacked on land, and Bird's expedition was attacked at sea.
“They jumped out from under the water like crazy and literally slipped between the masts of ships with such speed that the radio antennas were torn by the streams of disturbed air. The whole nightmare lasted about 20 minutes. When the flying saucers dived under the water again, we began to count our losses. They were terrifying." This is the memoir of an expedition member, experienced military pilot John Simson. So what happened? And who could these flying discs belong to?
In the post-war years, intriguing photographs and drawings were discovered in secret Nazi archives. After carefully studying these documents, experts came to the conclusion that German scientists were developing very strange-looking aircraft. The name “flying saucer” appeared in the lexicon later. And then they were called “disks”. The specialists were amazed; there was nothing like this in the world at that time. How did Nazi scientists manage to make such a technological breakthrough? 
Today a lot is known about the developments of the Third Reich in the field of “flying saucers”. However, over the years the questions do not decrease. How successful were the Germans in this? According to some reports, in 1936, an unidentified flying object of unearthly origin crashed near the city of Freiburg. It was discovered and, perhaps, German scientists, with the support of the SS, were able to repair and even test its energy system and propulsion system. However, attempts to copy the device and reproduce the flight technology under terrestrial conditions ended in failure.
The little earlier known inventor Viktor Schauberger builds his “saucer” and calls it an otherworldly aircraft. The device has three parallel disks. During operation, the upper and lower disks rotate in the opposite direction, creating a very strong field and anti-gravity effect. According to the evidence, this structure not only floated in the air, but also changed the structure of time around itself. It is believed that this particular technomagical device became the prototype of future flying discs.
The military department became interested in the project, and later this development, and others like it, were taken under control by the SS and the Ahnenerbe society. Even before the war, hundreds of ancient parchments in Sanskrit, ancient Chinese, and other eastern languages were delivered to Germany from the Ahnenerbe Tibetan expedition. The manuscripts were subjected to careful study. Wernher von Braun, the creator of the first V-cruise and ballistic missiles, said after the war: “We learned a lot for ourselves from these papers.”
The deciphering of ancient manuscripts found by the Ahnenerbe expeditions apparently bore fruit. In 1939, the designer of the Focke-Wulf aircraft, Professor Heinrich Focke, patented a vertical take-off aircraft with a saucer-shaped turbine engine. That same year, German inventor and former farmer Arthur Zack began developing an airplane with disc-shaped wings. This device, called AC-6, was created in Leipzig at the Mitteldeutsche Motoren Welke plant.
Testing began in 1944 at Branders Air Force Base. The pilot was only able to lift the AC-6 off the ground. After which the right landing gear could not withstand the loads from the reaction torque of the propeller. Soon the military abandoned the development. At the end of 1942, a combat flying disk called “Okhotnik-1” with a diameter of almost 12 meters took off into the air. It is claimed that 17 such devices were manufactured before the end of the war. But such statements must be treated with extreme caution. 
According to intelligence data from the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, by the end of the war the Germans had nine scientific enterprises at which flying projects were tested.
The famous researcher of the Antarctic secrets of the Third Reich, David Childress, claims that this was so. He names the date - 1942, when thousands of specialists and workers, as well as pilots, were transferred to the South Pole with the help of submarines. That is, if we further develop the logical chain, then the Nazi Antarctic base of New Swabia is not a fantasy and the production of combat “flying saucers” was nevertheless launched there. And it was these “saucers”, flying out of the water, that attacked the American expedition in 1947. Could this really happen?
It is possible that German settlers who settled in New Swabia made an incredible scientific breakthrough and were able to create more advanced devices capable of conducting active combat operations in any environment. And the resources for this breakthrough were gleaned directly from the depths of the sixth continent. It was not without reason that Plato suggested that Antarctica was the Atlantean civilization hidden by a layer of ice. And this civilization may be a repository of many secrets.
Some scientists believe that the German base in Antarctica still exists. Moreover, they say that there is an entire underground city there called New Berlin with a population of two million people. The main occupation of its inhabitants is supposedly genetic engineering and space research. Indirect confirmation of the existence of the base is called repeated sightings of UFOs in the South Pole area.
Witnesses most often talk about “plates” and “cigars” hanging in the air. It is possible that it was these objects that were attacked by Soviet and American polar explorers who were trying to reach the South Magnetic Pole in the late 50s and early 60s. It can be assumed that the researchers got too close to the place where the underground city is located. And the inhabitants of the base turned on their main defensive resources to stop the uninvited guests.
By the way, in 1976, the Japanese, using the latest equipment, simultaneously detected 19 round objects that dived from space to Antarctica and disappeared from the screen. In addition, scientists have discovered several artificial satellites in Earth's orbit, unknown to whom they belong. The sixth continent continues to keep its secrets. More and more new questions are being added to them, and over the years there are no fewer of them. But hope does not fade that perhaps someday these mysteries will be solved.
SECRETS OF ANTARCTICA
Unique continent
The sixth continent, discovered in 1820 by the Bellingshausen expedition, remains today one of the most mysterious areas of the globe. Antarctica is unique in its geographical location - it has access to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. All time zones are present here.
This is the harshest place on our planet: throughout the year the air temperature does not rise above zero degrees Celsius, strong winds and storms rage here. More than 99% of the continent's surface is covered with an ice shell up to 5 km thick. Thanks to its climate, Antarctica remains the last ecologically clean region on Earth.
This is the only region that does not have an indigenous population. In summer, the icy continent welcomes up to 4 thousand guests, tourists and workers of research stations. Only scientists remain for the winter - about 1,200 people. In Antarctica, there is virtually no political situation in the usual sense. There are no borders, no capital, no 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 that same lost continent that both scientists and ordinary people have not stopped talking about for many centuries. An article published in the Italian magazine "Europeo" almost half a century ago 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 a 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 research results, the north magnetic pole was previously located in eastern Asia. Antarctica, thus, fell into the same climatic zone with Central America, Mesopotamia, Hindustan and Egypt - the cradles of ancient civilizations. According to Barbiero Flavio, after the catastrophe the Atlanteans moved not to uninhabited lands, but to colonies located in these territories, and brought with them the fruits of a highly developed culture.
Another evolution
Among some scientists, there is an opinion that the depths of the icy continent may hide unexplored life forms - the product of evolution, which 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 measuring 500 by 150 km, 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 - only 200 m from the surface of the lake. If drilling products, as well as modern bacteria and microbes, do not enter the reservoir, then the Antarctic lake, which has remained intact for several million years, 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 over two million years! The many kilometers long Victoria, Master and Taylor valleys have no ice cover due to too dry air. According to many scientists, this is the driest place on the planet.
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 discovered 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 hasty in “annexing” territories covered with many kilometers of ice to their distant Reich that this actually looks too suspicious.
“... In Antarctica,” writes National Policy, “it would be almost impossible to find “this demoniac” of any, even the most numerous, expedition. Would it be possible to comb all these plains, alleys and mountains covered with eternal ice and snow? In the best case, thousands and tens of thousands of search engines with ships, planes, helicopters and special equipment would be required. Meanwhile, in Germany, plans to create a permanent base in Antarctica began to be developed in earnest back in 1938, and over the next seven years, regular voyages of the research vessel Swabia began between Germany and Antarctica, later, with the outbreak of war, replaced by a division of submarines , which received the new name “Fuhrer Convoy” and included 35 submarines. Before the war, mining equipment, railways, electric locomotives, trolleys, tractors, cutters for cutting tunnels in the rock mass were brought to the area where the Antarctic base was being built on Swabia... Everything else was transported on submarines. Scientists, engineers, and highly skilled workers arrived in large numbers at “Base 211,” founded in Schirmacher Bay and turned into a cargo transshipment port.”
In a short period of time, more than 350 thousand square kilometers of the continent were photographed from the air, the same amount was examined, the entire territory was literally staked out with fifteen thousand metal pennants with swastikas, and on all German maps of that time, Dronning Maud Land was renamed “New Swabia.” According to this version, Hitler and his staff escaped in submarines, since during the war 54 German submarines disappeared without a trace, 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 for the Fuhrer the real Shang-ri-lu of our days.
Alexander Surpin, who was involved in the development of materials about the Fuhrer, notes that during the Second World War, inexplicable behavior of the Nazi Navy in the Antarctic region was noticed. No one was allowed there, not even whaling ships from non-warring countries.
And at the end of the war, in the German city of Kiel, weapons were removed from the submarines and containers with huge supplies of provisions, equipment and documents were loaded. Their further fate is unknown.
The 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 clearly indicating that a squadron of German submarines during an expedition to New Swabia found a whole system of interconnected caves with warm air. “My submariners,” Karl Doenitz (commander of the Reich submarine fleet) once said 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 launched to the South Magnetic Pole from the Mirny station, only two were able to return. According to the official version, the deaths occurred due to a severe storm and frost. However, it was subsequently refuted by Yuri Korshunov, a participant in this campaign. He wrote: “When we approached the magnetic pole significantly, 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 car breakdown or other troubles. We set up our main camp and decided to go to bed early. However, we still couldn’t fall asleep; we were overcome by a strange, anxious feeling of impending disaster. After some time, I left the tent and, to my surprise and horror, I saw about three hundred meters from the all-terrain vehicle a huge luminous ball with a diameter of 15–20 meters. It jumped up and moved towards us, getting darker every moment. All my comrades ran out to my screams, and the ball suddenly began to stretch out, turning into some kind of sausage with a terrible face without eyes and a hole that looked like a mouth. The snow beneath him hissed and melted, and the “monster”, which had stopped jumping, kept 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 creepy “guest” and began to photograph 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 knocked down. Our group leader Andrei Skobelev and doctor Roma Kustov began shooting at the “monster” with explosive bullets. It suddenly swelled and exploded, breaking up 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 severely burned, and his special suit turned into smoking rags. 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 after this emergency, a new tragedy occurred. Over the nearest hill a ball appeared, as if condensed from the air, a hundred meters from the ground, the same as the last time, and two more flew after it. 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, and at that time Skobelev tried to take photographs. As a result, everything ended even more pitifully than last time. My consciousness became clouded for a while, and when I came to my senses, I smelled a strong ozone smell in the air, as if after a strong thunderstorm. Kustov and Borisov were lying in the snow, and both were dead. And Skobelev completely lost his sight and sanity...
The monotonous Antarctic landscape of the land of eternal snow and ice was enlivened by all-terrain vehicles and figures of people walking from nowhere near their “iron horses.” Suddenly, a huge bluish ball flew out from behind the nearest snowy hill. People watched in fascination as a 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, many began to hide in all-terrain vehicles, shouting to the operator to quickly run to them. But he, as if not hearing their screams, continued to fascinatedly watch the unprecedented “snow” monster through the camera viewfinder. And with a terrible hissing it suddenly rose up, furiously spun 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 ball soared into the sky, moving away at great speed. further and further. The blackened body of the deceased operator was smoking in the snow..."
Scientists became interested in this strange phenomenon back in the first half of the 20th century. It arose in Antarctica in areas close to the Earth's South Magnetic Pole. More than once, participants in polar expeditions had the opportunity to see strange visions in the form of huge balls or other figures that melted snow and caused magnetic storms. Some of the researchers became victims of these unknown entities, capable of killing living organisms not only through 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 along a new route passing through the region of the magnetic pole, people, judging by their records, were subjected to severe trials. In addition to natural storms and bad weather, they encountered completely inexplicable anomalies several times, as a result of which they died one after another. True, according to the official version, Scott and his comrades died because they “simply lost their way,” were completely exhausted by bad weather and were left without food.
In 1962, an American expedition set off from Midway Station. It was equipped with the most advanced equipment. As a result, 17 researchers returned in the only surviving machine. 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 matter was clearly not without the machinations of 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 kind of electrical living beings - plasma clots that live mainly within the radiation belt at an altitude of 400–800 km. At this altitude, plasmasaurs are in a rarefied state and remain invisible, but they can approach the Earth in the region of the South Pole (in the northern region, such “miracles” have not yet been recorded). Approaching the surface, plasmasaurs find themselves in a very dense environment and themselves become so dense that they can already be seen.
Russian scientists generally agree with this opinion, but believe that plasmasaurs 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 arose even before organic life arose on the surface of our planet. It is likely that over time this phenomenon will cease to be a secret behind seven seals.
Terrible find
In 1999, a research expedition discovered a virus in Antarctica to which neither humans nor animals have immunity. It seems there is nothing to worry about - the dangerous virus is in the permafrost. However, according to scientists, if we take into account that the earth is threatened by global warming, the virus could threaten humanity with a terrible catastrophe. New York University expert Tom Starmerue shares the gloomy forecasts of his colleagues: “We don’t know what humanity will face at the South Pole in the near future due to global warming; perhaps an unprecedented epidemic will begin. Viruses protected by a protein shell, having retained their viability in permafrost, will begin to multiply as soon as the ambient temperature rises...” Moreover, American scientists took the terrible discovery in Antarctica so seriously that an urgently organized expedition is now taking ice samples, trying to find as much as possible unknown viruses in order to try to find an antidote in advance. But where did the infection come from in Antarctica, where, as you know, there are “only ice floes and penguins” and there seems to be no one else? It's completely unclear. The experts just shrug their shoulders...
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