The mystery of Antarctica is revealed. Five mysterious secrets of Antarctica. News from Antarctica

Antarctica is the sixth continent on our planet. Coldest and harshest place on Earth. Almost 200 years have passed since the moment when Russian navigators Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discovered this continent. But the mysteries of the Antarctic ice sheet have not yet been solved. Someone thinks that another life is hidden in the mainland mass of ice. Others are sure that it contains answers to questions about the origin of the Earth.

It is possible that each of the inquisitive explorers 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 middle of the 20th century. And these events are still the main secret of the sixth continent of our planet.

In 1959, a Soviet expedition that founded the Mirny polar station in Antarctica sent an expedition of eight explorers inland to reach the magnetic south pole. Only three returned. By 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 17 people were equipped on the expedition already on three all-terrain vehicles and with constant radio communications. In this expedition, no one died, but people returned on one all-terrain vehicle. They were all on the verge of insanity. The researchers could not clearly explain anything and they were immediately evacuated to their homeland.

Much later, Soviet polar explorer Yuri Korshunov, in an interview with a reporter, tried to tell what happened to the Mirny station expedition. 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 that resemble discs. An attempt to remove the anomalous phenomenon ended in failure. The photographer and camera were destroyed by a beam from a flying object. Those who began to repel an attack from the air with hunting rifles also died. The reporter did not manage to publish this story.

Korshunov, meanwhile, had 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 famous polar explorer Admiral Richard Bird commanded the campaign.

Admiral Byrd has a powerful naval group under his command. An aircraft carrier, twelve surface ships, a submarine, more than two dozen aircraft and helicopters, about five thousand personnel. Agree, 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 Bird said at a press conference: "My expedition has a military character!" Although he did not give details, some journalists suggested that Byrd's mission was to find and eliminate a top-secret Nazi base located somewhere in the southernmost latitudes.

It was a time when the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition vividly discussed the mysterious disappearance of the surviving party functionaries of the Third Reich after the surrender of the German army. And also the loss of the gold reserves and high-tech developments of Nazi Germany. Different versions were expressed. Up to the point that the Nazis could hide somewhere in Antarctica, where they had built secret shelters in advance.

At the end of January 1947, an American expedition approached Antarctica and began to carry out aerial reconnaissance of the mainland in the area of ​​the Queen Maud land. Several hundred aerial photographs were taken in the first weeks. And suddenly something mysterious happens. The expedition, designed for six months, barely reaching the icy continent, hastily curtailed and left the shores of Antarctica in panic.

The Pentagon receives disappointing reports. The destroyer was lost, almost half of the carrier-based aircraft, dozens of sailors and officers. A member of the Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry of the US Congress, Admiral Bird said literally the following: "In the event of a new war, America may be attacked by an enemy capable of flying 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 "Fuehrer's convoy" surrendered to the authorities in the Argentine port of Mar del Plata. The tasks of this top-secret connection are still deeply secret. The submarine crews were interrogated with partiality. But only the commander of the submarine with the tail number Q530 was able to obtain testimony.

Three weeks before the end of the war, the submarine, hull 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. During interrogation, the commander of another U977 boat, Heinz Schaefer, said that a little later he repeated the route of the submarine with tail number Q530. The interrogators also managed to find out that German submarines have repeatedly sailed to Antarctica. But why exactly there?

There has long been a version that there was once a single supercontinent Gondwana on Earth. It existed about 500 million years ago and united almost all of the land located in the Southern Hemisphere. Where has this supercontinent gone? It split into several continents as a result, for example, of a geological rupture and a rapid shift of tectonic plates. Antarctica is one such continent. And, quite possibly, it could even be part of Atlantis.

This idea was suggested by Plato. According to his calculations, the dimensions of the lost civilization fit the parameters of Antarctica. In addition, two centuries ago, a map of the Turkish admiral Muhiddin Piri-bey was found, compiled in 1513, where Antarctica is depicted without ice cover. Piri Bey testified that when drawing up the map he used exclusively ancient Greek sources.

The idea that the secrets of the Atlantean civilization could be hidden under the ice cap of the sixth continent was seized upon by Adolf Hitler. 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, Antarctica.

Hitler sent several groups to seek secret knowledge on the icy continent. To keep the complete secrecy of the mission, the researchers used exclusively the submarine fleet. But already following the results of one of the first expeditions, the commander of the Kriegsmarines, Admiral Karl Dönitz, said: "My submariners have discovered a real earthly paradise!" In 1943, at the height of the war with Russia, Gross Admiral Dönitz utters another no less mysterious phrase: "The German submarine fleet can be proud that at the other end of the world it has created an impregnable fortress for the Fuehrer!"

Not so long ago, huge lakes were discovered in Antarctica under a kilometer-long layer of ice. The water temperature in them is +18 degrees. Above the surface are domed 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. For thousands of years, they could create huge tunnels under the ice. From the side of the ocean, diving under the coastal ice, any submarine can safely 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 documents found, the Nazis were actually planning to create a top-secret training ground in Antarctica. He received the code name "Baza-211" or New Swabia and, allegedly already from the beginning of 1939, special ships loaded with mining equipment, railway and construction equipment pulled to the shores of the icy continent. Scientists, engineers, and highly skilled workers also began to arrive there. Why did the Nazis need such a base?

There are various hypotheses. It is possible that the Germans planned to keep the South Seas under military control. Someone thinks that weapons-grade uranium was sought in the bowels 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 latest version argue that, allegedly, already in the early 40s, the transfer of future residents of Antarctic New Swabia began. Not only scientists and specialists, but also party functionaries with high-ranking government officials. And that some secret production was sent there.

By the way, immediately after Germany's surrender, the Americans, who were actively recruiting scientists to work in the United States, were puzzled by the fact that thousands of highly qualified specialists from the Third Reich disappeared without a trace. About a hundred submarines of the German naval forces were also missing. In the lists of military losses, neither people nor boats were listed.

All this could not but alarm the White House. In addition, the department of Allen Dulles 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 in the course of the situation. That is why, at the end of 1946, a so-called scientific, but in fact a military expedition the size of a squadron under the command of Richard Byrd went to the shores of the sixth continent.

But it was not there. As soon as they reached Queen Maud's land, the expedition was attacked. But by whom? The pilots talked about flying discs jumping out of the water and attacking them, the incinerating rays of all living things, and the 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 the polar explorer Yuri Korshunov? Only Soviet explorers were attacked on land, and Byrd's expedition at sea.

“They jumped out from under the water like crazy and literally slipped between the masts of ships at such a speed that streams of indignant air tore the radio antennas. The whole nightmare lasted about 20 minutes. When the flying saucers dived under the water again, we began to count the losses. They were terrifying. " This is the recollection of a member of the expedition, an 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. Having carefully studied these documents, experts came to the conclusion that German scientists were developing very strange outwardly flying vehicles. The name "flying saucer" appeared later in the lexicon. And then they were called "disks". The specialists were amazed, there was nothing like it in the world at that time. How did Nazi scientists manage to make such a technological breakthrough?

A lot is known about the developments of the Third Reich in the field of "flying saucers" today. However, the number of questions does not diminish over the years. To what extent have the Germans succeeded 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, possibly, 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 technology of flight in terrestrial conditions ended in failure.

Slightly previously famous inventor Viktor Schauberger builds his "saucer" and calls it the aircraft of the other world. The device has three parallel disks. During operation, the upper and lower discs 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 it. It is believed that it was this technomagic device that became the prototype of future flying discs.

The project became interested in the military department and later this development, and others similar, took control of 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 Tibetan expedition "Ahnenerbe". The manuscripts have undergone careful study. Wernher von Braun, the creator of the first cruise and ballistic missiles "Vau", said after the war: "We have learned a lot from these papers."

Decryptions of ancient manuscripts found by the Ahnenerbe expeditions have apparently borne fruit. In 1939, the designer of the Focke Wulf aircraft, Professor Heinrich Focke, patented a vertical takeoff aircraft with a saucer-shaped turbocharged engine. In the same year, German inventor and former farmer Arthur Zak began developing an airplane with disc-shaped wings. This device, called the AC-6, was created in Leipzig at the Mitteldeutsche Motoren Wielke plant.

Tests began in 1944 at Branders AFB. The pilot was only able to lift the AS-6 off the ground. After that, the right landing gear could not withstand the loads from the reactive moment of the propeller. The military soon abandoned development. At the end of 1942, a combat flying disc with the name "Hunter-1" with a diameter of almost 12 meters rises into the air. It is said that 17 such devices were manufactured by 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 they tested projects of flying

The famous researcher of the Antarctic mysteries of the Third Reich, David Childress, claims that it 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 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 be?

It is possible that the German settlers who settled in New Swabia made an incredible scientific breakthrough and were able to create more advanced vehicles capable of conducting active military operations in any environment. And the resources for this breakthrough were gleaned directly from the depths of the sixth continent. After all, it was not for nothing that Plato suggested that Antarctica is the Atlantean civilization hidden by a layer of ice. And this civilization can be a repository of so many secrets.

Some scientists believe that the German base in Antarctica has survived to this day. Moreover, they talk about the existence of a whole underground city there with the name New Berlin and with a population of two million people. The main occupation of its inhabitants is supposedly genetic engineering and space exploration... Indirect confirmation of the existence of the base is called repeated UFO sightings in the South Pole region.

Witnesses most often talk about "plates" and "cigars" hanging in the air. It is possible that it was these objects that were attacked by the 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... And the inhabitants of the base turned on their main defensive resources to stop the intruders.

By the way, in 1976, using the latest equipment, the Japanese simultaneously spotted 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, belonging to no one knows who. The sixth continent continues to keep its secrets. All new questions are added to them, and over the years they do not diminish. But the hope does not fade that, perhaps, someday these secrets will be unraveled.

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Antarctica was considered a lifeless continent inhabited only by penguins. But scientists from Antarctic scientific stations began to stumble upon terrible monsters there ...

Plasmosaurs

The most famous Antarctic monsters are plasmosaurs - creatures that are clots of plasma. True, scientists are desperately arguing about whether they can be attributed to living beings. The first to encounter plasmosaurs was the Soviet expedition, which made its way to the South Pole in 1959. Three hundred meters from the all-terrain vehicle, a luminous ball jumped out from nowhere. Several minutes passed, and the ball, slowly rolling towards the polar explorers, turned into a kind of sausage.

The expedition photographer A. Gorodetsky with a camera in his hands went forward. "Sausage" stretched out in a narrow ribbon, a glowing halo appeared around the person. Gorodetsky screamed and fell into the snow. The head of the group, Andrei Skobelev, and the expedition doctor, Roman Kustov, fired several shots at the glowing tape. It was swollen, sparks splashed to the sides. Exploded, the tape disappeared. The photographer was dead. The back of his head, palms and back were charred.

The researchers met the glowing balls for the second time three days later. They appeared at a height of about one hundred meters and began to slowly move towards people along complex trajectories. After several shots were fired at them, the balls, leaving the smell of ozone in the air, disappeared. Two more dead polar explorers remained in the snow: Kusov and Borisov. These were the first tragic meetings of scientists with luminous balls, later called plasmosaurs. Then several more happened.

The last victim of the plasma creatures was Jacques Valence, a member of the 1991 French expedition. The answer to the question of who or what scientists faced on the Ice Continent was offered by the Russian scientist Boris Solomin. When flares occur on the Sun, streams of magnetic-plasma formations - plasmosaurs - scatter from it at a speed of several hundred kilometers per second. When they reach the Earth, they remain in the ionosphere. The radiation belts of the Earth are a real reserve for all kinds of plasmosaurs of solar and even galactic origin. They can descend to the surface of the Earth in the regions of the magnetic poles. Meetings with these formations led to the death of scientists on the Ice Continent.

Monsters Horvitsa

The monsters that lived in Antarctica in the region of the "cold pole" were dubbed by journalists as "Horvitsa monsters". For the first time, polar explorer Isaac Horwitz met the monster that received his name in the summer of 1960. Scientists moved slowly, making frequent stops for scientific observations. On one of them, the researchers missed the magnetologist Stolpard. The traces left by the scientists led to a crack. In the depths, on the cornice, the sprawled figure of a man was guessed. Horvits descended into the crack. Held by the ropes, he sank deeper and deeper into the darkness. Finally, he reached the cornice, where he could only find a fur glove and stains of frozen blood. And also - distinct tracks, reminiscent of a rat, but the size of a wolf.

At first they walked along the cornice, then they crossed the sheer wall and disappeared into the darkness. Meanwhile, the weather conditions worsened. The expedition, not reaching the "cold pole", was forced to return to the station. Snow and wind made the search for the missing person impossible. The winter was harsh that year. The temperature at the station dropped to 70 degrees, the cold wind made it unbearable at all. They went outside only in two and for the shortest possible time.

But on July 6, Art Short and Kenneth Millar left and did not return. Only on the third day, when the wind died down, the bodies of the missing scientists were found one and a half miles from the station. More precisely, their clothes and flesh. The bones are gone. "Something", having killed people, devoured only the bones, leaving the rest as a frozen mass. Horvits suggested that the dead polar explorers discovered an unknown creature and, forgetting about caution, retired from the station. The weather made it impossible for them to return. And then, when they died from the cold, an unknown creature dealt with their bodies.

Several weeks passed, and Horwitz himself met with this unknown creature. He worked with a companion in the magnetic pavilion. Suddenly, in the light of the moon, the scientist noticed an approaching huge white "bat"! Having fired all the cartridges from his pistol, Horvits drove away the terrible animal. On the snow, he found clots of liquid, which for some reason did not solidify in the seventy-degree frost. Comparing what he saw with the stories of Russian polar explorers, who also met with similar monsters, Horvits suggested that in the depths of Antarctica there are creatures that he called "polar cryons." Their "circulatory system" is based on ammonia-carbonic liquid. The usual temperature for such creatures is minus 70 - 100 ° С. They live mainly in the area of ​​the "cold pole". In summer, they hide in deep cracks or hibernate, enveloping themselves in a heat-tight cocoon. But in winter, during the polar night, kryons lead an active life. They are afraid of heat and therefore avoid human settlements and people themselves while they are alive - we are too hot for them. In the corpse, they are not interested in proteins or fats, alien to the body of polar cryones, but in bones - a source of mineral substances.

White lions of Antarctica

On November 22, 2006, Argentine biologist Lieutenant Gomez Tore made an amazing discovery. He worked at the Almirante Braun Research Base located in San Martin Land. The Antarctic spring came, but it was still cold, and the lieutenant, who had not recovered from the cold he had suffered in the winter, decided to take a break and sat down by a large boulder that protected from the wind. And here Gomez saw ... a lion! His first thought was - this is a hallucination, the result of a long and serious illness. The lion was larger than the African one and kept close to the coast. It had a massive body, strong but short legs, and was covered with thick white fur. The pose of the white lion was reminiscent of the pose of a domestic cat, which lies in wait for a mouse at a burrow. Suddenly, the lion shuddered all over and jumped into the water! Half a minute passed, and he emerged, holding a large seal in his mouth. Having got out to the shore, the lion laid the prey in front of him and looked around. Standing as if in thought, the beast picked up the prey and trotted away. All the way back, Gomez Tore wondered whether to tell the leadership about what he saw or not? The authorities could consider him mentally ill and send him home. As a result, the lieutenant decided that it was his duty, as an officer, to report what had happened. He submitted an incident report to Captain Azappecy. And he did not doubt the veracity of the subordinate! It turned out that two more people saw the "white creature", but because of the great distance they did not recognize him as a lion.

The captain ordered a search for the lion, including Gomez himself and two other base personnel who had seen the strange animal in the team. At the meeting place of Gomez with the lion, they set up filming equipment and put part of the carcass of a cow for bait. The equipment did not disappoint: on November 26, an image of a pair of white predators - a lion and a lioness - was recorded. The footage shows how they devour meat.

Commenting on the news of the sensational find, the famous cryptozoologist Professor Ira Samuelson said that it is not impossible that relic polar lions survived on the Antarctic coast. The feline family is nature's most advanced predators. They are widespread everywhere, and, contrary to popular belief, the cold is by no means their enemy and "kitties" are not afraid of water either.

Water serpent

Monsters are also found in the seas adjacent to the Ice Continent. Sailors often see a sea serpent there, although they do not like to talk about such meetings - they are already considered inveterate liars. But back in August 1848, an event occurred that forced scientists to admit the possibility of the existence of a water monster. The British frigate Dedalus skirted the Cape of Good Hope and met a gigantic sea monster here.

The official report about this amazing creature, submitted by the captain of the ship McCue to the Admiralty, has been preserved. “Sir, satisfying the requirement contained in your letter from this day, I inform ... (further goes detailed description the course of the ship and the names of the sailors and officers who noticed the strange creature). The creature swam quickly and so close to our leeward side that it could be seen with the naked eye. The snake was heading northwest and was sailing at a speed of 12-15 miles per hour. Its diameter is 15-16 inches in the neck, behind the head. The head is undoubtedly a serpentine type, but for 20 minutes while the animal was in the field of view of the telescope, we could not see any other parts of its body located below the surface of the water. The color is dark brown with a yellow-white stripe in the throat area.

The animal had no fins, but something like a horse's mane or a bunch of seaweed dangled on its back. " The sea serpent was seen by seven of the Daedalus crew. An amateur artist who was on the ship managed to sketch it. This drawing of a sea serpent is often found in the pages of books dedicated to mysterious animals.

The story of the sailors from the Dedalus was published in The Times, England's most conservative newspaper. From there, he quickly migrated, first to other British newspapers, and then to the foreign press. The famous paleontologist Richard Owen tried to appear in print with a refutation, believing that the sailors from the Daedalus saw not a giant snake, but just a huge seal, or, as it is often called, an elephant seal, an inhabitant of Antarctica. But Captain McQue and the other crew members objected vehemently. There could be no mistake, sailors are well aware of this type of seals and often meet them on the voyage. The creature they saw was unlike any animal they knew. Plus, a snake is at least ten times longer than any seal.

The sea serpent was also seen in other seas. In May 1833, Canadian officers stumbled upon him: “We saw the head and neck of a serpent. The head was raised high above the water and during swimming it was thrown far forward, and then back, so that it was alternately above the water, then under the water. " On January 10, 1877, five agitated sailors appeared at the Liverpool city magistrate to testify under oath: “We saw three large sperm whales, and one of them was twice entwined with a huge snake. Her head and body, coiled in rings, were 30 feet long. " Probably, the Ice Continent, to which a person reached by historical standards almost yesterday, will present many more surprises. After all, people have just started to master it ...

The unsolved 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 little has been learned about it. In March 2002, two twin satellites of NASA's GRACE program were launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, which were supposed to measure the Earth's gravitational field. These data are used in climatic research, in the search for minerals and the study of faults in the earth's crust, volcanic activity.
And now, during the flight over Antarctica, the satellites recorded an unexpected gravitational impulse. A powerful positive gravity anomaly was discovered. It emanated from a huge under-ice space with a diameter of about 500 kilometers. Above it stretched for thousands of kilometers the snow-covered plain of the Antarctic glacier up to 4 thousand meters thick.
An anomaly unique to Antarctica is located in an area called Wilkes Land. Here in 2006, a scientific group of Ohio University professor Ralph von Frese identified the presence of a giant crater, which is two and a half times larger than the Chicxulub crater in Yucatan, which arose when a meteorite fell, which is believed to have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

With the help of radars in this crater, a huge, extremely dense, presumably metallic mass was found about 300 kilometers wide and extending to a depth of 848 meters. At first, it was suggested that this "pancake" could be a concentration of magma splashed out from the bowels of the earth. But this hypothesis was soon rejected. Then scientists started talking about the likelihood of the remains of a huge asteroid under the ice of Antarctica. But how could the Earth survive in a collision with such a monstrous mass?

Antarctica researchers are inclined to believe thatthere is a certain cosmic body in Wilkes Land.
But today it is almost impossible to get through to him. To do this, you would have to create special station, to import tons of equipment, which in terms of costs may approach the estimated cost of a manned flight to Mars. Moreover, scientists would have to survive when the air temperature in winter is minus 80 degrees.
Someone says that this potentially dangerous anomaly should not be touched at all. And supporters of the theory of visiting Earth by alien civilizations believe that under the ice of Antarctica is hidden 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 surfaced that Kerry allegedly visited a secret alien base located in the recently discovered pyramidal mountain.
In addition, in the new year at the Russian station "Vostok" they are going to resume studies of 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. It is planned to break through to the lake again using new technology drilling.

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 scientists at Columbia University on the southeastern shore of the lake. It differs from the background magnetic field more than a thousand nanotes.
Research participant Michael Stadinger suggested that this could be caused by the very thin earth's crust in the lake region, but his colleagues believed that the proximity of the hot earth's interior, on the contrary, would heat the rocks and thereby reduce the level of the magnetic field.
As a result of scientific controversy, a theory arose about finding remains on the shore of the lake. ancient city with its metal structures. They even began to talk about the fact that the legendary Atlantis was once on the site of Antarctica.
American scientists who worked at NASA along 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 the captured Germans, that prompted the United States to undertake in 1946 a still unparalleled operation to seize Antarctica.
In 1946-1947, the US Navy's "High Jump" operation was launched. A flotilla of 13 ships with 33 aircraft, including an aircraft carrier, set out to consolidate American control over much of Antarctica.
Perhaps the US command believed the myths that Germany could equip its secret base in the bowels of the continent and transport some of its advanced military technology there. They say that American sailors were looking for disguised entrances to the under-ice world. By the way, caves with entrances resembling the profile of UFO saucers were seen at the tops of the peaks of a half-swept mountain range.
Some of the scientific data obtained from 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 the size of the United States, where only one unprotected breath of icy air burns the bronchi. Scientists suggest that unknown forces exist on this continent, which, for example, are moving an ice massif stretching for thousands of kilometers, containing 70 percent of the earth's fresh water.
Despite the extreme cold, even this ice is home to bacteria, although there are very few of them compared to normal sea ​​water- 300 per cubic meter millimeter of ice. Scientists are also intrigued by the incomprehensible fires arising over the icy desert. They were also observed by our researchers at the Vostok station.
It is not clear why the most ancient Antarctic mountains on our planet still exist, almost entirely gone under ice and snow. The Gamburtsev Mountains have long outlived their geological time, says Robin Bell, a geophysicist and professor at Columbia University.
Robin, who has been exploring these mountains hidden under the ice for a long time, says that the Gamburtsev Ridge, discovered by Soviet scientists, is between 900 million and a billion years old. These mountains were about to disintegrate. For example, the life of the Alps will be only about 100 million years. There is only one not very convincing explanation: the mountains experienced rejuvenation during tectonic cataclysms that tore apart ancient continents.
Professor John Priscu of the University of Montana spent 27 years in the Antarctic field 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 extracted from three kilometers deep, startlingly quickly began to show signs of life. They began to grow in melt water. “We do not know if they were in a state of hibernation or if their process of life is just going very slowly,” - said Priscu.
Biologists are wondering: why are the creatures living in the waters of Antarctica so different from everyone else on the planet? Many habitual inhabitants of the earth's seas and oceans are absent here. The ocean is almost unexplored, under the multi-meter ice sheet that fringes the continent.
However, the more science comprehends Antarctica, the more questions arise.

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 NASA GRACE satellites were launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome to measure the Earth's gravitational field. These data are used in climatic research, in the search for minerals and the study of faults in the earth's crust, volcanic activity.

And now, during the flight over Antarctica, the satellites recorded an unexpected gravitational impulse. A powerful positive gravity anomaly was discovered. It emanated from a huge under-ice space with a diameter of about 500 kilometers. Above it stretched for thousands of kilometers the snow-covered plain of the Antarctic glacier up to 4 thousand meters thick.

An anomaly unique to Antarctica is located in an area called Wilkes Land. Here in 2006, a scientific group of Ohio University professor Ralph von Frese identified the presence of a giant crater, which is two and a half times larger than the Chicxulub crater in Yucatan, which arose when a meteorite fell, which is believed to have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

With the help of radars in this crater, a huge, extremely dense, presumably metallic mass was found about 300 kilometers wide and extending to a depth of 848 meters. At first, it was suggested that this "pancake" could be a concentration of magma splashed out from the bowels of the earth. But this hypothesis was soon rejected. Then scientists started talking about the likelihood of the remains of a huge asteroid under the ice of Antarctica. But how could the Earth survive in a collision with such a monstrous mass?

Researchers in Antarctica are inclined to believe that there is a kind of cosmic body in Wilkes Land.

But today it is almost impossible to get through to him. To do this, it would be necessary to create a special station, 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 when the air temperature in winter is minus 80 degrees.

Someone says that this potentially dangerous anomaly should not be touched at all. And supporters of the theory of visiting Earth by alien civilizations believe that under the ice of Antarctica is hidden a massive spaceship serving as a base for aliens, or even a portal to the "inner Earth".

The mysterious Antarctic anomaly was recalled again at the end of December, after US Secretary of State John Kerry suddenly visited Antarctica. Rumors immediately surfaced that Kerry allegedly visited a secret alien base located in the recently discovered pyramidal mountain.

In addition, in the new year at the Russian station "Vostok" they are going to resume studies of 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. It is planned to break through to 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 scientists at Columbia University on the southeastern shore of the lake. It differs from the indices of the background magnetic field by more than one thousand nanot-tesla.

Research participant Michael Stadinger suggested that this could be caused by the very thin earth's crust in the lake region, but his colleagues believed that the proximity of the hot earth's interior, on the contrary, would heat the rocks and thereby reduce the level of the magnetic field.

As a result of scientific disputes, a theory arose about 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 on the site of Antarctica.

American scientists who worked at NASA along with the outstanding German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun say that he was convinced that Hitler was right when he called Antarctica "Atlantis under the ice." Perhaps it was this information, coming from the captured Germans, that prompted the United States to undertake in 1946 a still unparalleled operation to seize Antarctica.

In 1946-1947, the US Navy's "High Jump" operation was launched. A flotilla of 13 ships with 33 aircraft, including an aircraft carrier, set out to consolidate American control over much of Antarctica.

Perhaps the US command believed the myths that Germany could equip its secret base in the bowels of the continent and transport some of its advanced military technology there. They say that American sailors were looking for disguised entrances to the under-ice world. By the way, caves with entrances resembling the profile of UFO saucers were seen at the tops of the peaks of a half-swept mountain range.

Some of the scientific data obtained from 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 the size of the United States, where only one unprotected breath of icy air burns the bronchi. Scientists suggest that unknown forces exist on this continent, which, for example, are moving an ice massif stretching for thousands of kilometers, containing 70 percent of the earth's fresh water.

Despite the extreme cold, bacteria live even in this ice, 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 fires arising over the icy desert. They were also observed by our researchers at the Vostok station.

It is not clear why the most ancient Antarctic mountains on our planet still exist, almost entirely gone under ice and snow. The Gamburtsev Mountains have long outlived their geological time, says Robin Bell, a geophysicist and professor at Columbia University.

Robin, who has been exploring these mountains hidden under the ice for a long time, says that the Gamburtsev Ridge, discovered by Soviet scientists, is between 900 million and a billion years old. These mountains were about to disintegrate. For example, the life of the Alps will be only about 100 million years. There is only one not very convincing explanation: the mountains experienced rejuvenation during tectonic cataclysms that tore apart ancient continents.

Professor John Priscu of the University of Montana spent 27 years in the Antarctic field 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 extracted from three kilometers deep, startlingly quickly began to show signs of life. They began to grow in melt water. “We do not know if they were in a state of hibernation or if their process of life is just going very slowly,” - said Priscu.

Biologists are wondering: why are the creatures living in the waters of Antarctica so different from everyone else on the planet? Many habitual inhabitants of the earth's seas and oceans are absent here. The ocean is almost unexplored, under the multi-meter ice sheet that fringes the continent.

However, the more science comprehends Antarctica, the more questions arise.

Antarctica is not much different from Mars. Is that 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 on Mars yet. But this does not mean that the ice continent has been studied much better than the Red Planet. There are enough riddles here and there ...

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

Surprisingly, the images of Mars in high definition larger than Antarctica. It is possible to examine 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 about which legends have been circulating for a long time.

THREE RIDDLES

The discovery belongs to Joseph Skipper, a renowned virtual archaeologist from the United States. He usually "digs" on Mars and on the Moon, examining photographs transmitted from there by spacecraft and posted on the official websites of NASA and other space agencies. He finds a lot of surprising things that abruptly fall out of traditional perceptions.

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

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

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

Coordinates:
Stroke: 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

The "hole" opened by Joseph Skipper

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

HIDER HIDDEN THERE

It is known that the Nazis were very interested in Antarctica. A number of expeditions were equipped 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 ​​about 40 square kilometers, free of ice. With a relatively mild climate, with numerous non-freezing lakes. It was named the Schirmacher Oasis after the German pioneer pilot. Subsequently, the Soviet polar station Novolazarevskaya was located here.

According to the official version, the Third Reich went to Antarctica to build bases there to guard its whaling fleets. But there are much more interesting suggestions. Although it is difficult to call them even sci-fi. A pile of some kind of mysticism.

In short, the story is as follows. Allegedly, during the expeditions to Tibet, the Nazis found out that there is something inside Antarctica. Certain 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 story, it was argued 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 fund.

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 numerous escort - a whole squadron of huge submarines (8 pieces) called the "Fuehrer's Convoy". And he lived until 1971. And according to some reports, right up to 1985.

The authors of the Antarctic myths place under the ice and "flying saucers" of the Third Reich, rumors about which are saturated with numerous books, films, TV shows and the Internet. They say that the Nazis also hid these devices inside. Then they improved and are still operating, starting from mines in Antarctica. And UFOs are the very "saucers".

"Plate" - either alien, or German

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

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

Lake on the surface of Antarctica

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

Antarctica is generally a strange place ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wingham assures: the under-ice canals are as deep as the Thames.

Lake Wanda mystery. It is a salty lake and is covered with ice all year round. But what is amazing: a thermometer lowered into the water at 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 the skinny ice can connect one cavity to another. Serve as a kind of roads, which in some place may have access to the ocean. Or the entrance.

Queen Maud Land is a vast area on the Atlantic coast of Antarctica, lying between longitudes 20 ° W and 44 ° 38 "E. An area of ​​approximately 2,500,000 square kilometers. The territory is subject to the Antarctic Treaty.

This treaty prohibits the use of 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 of Nazi Germany. In 1938-1939, the Germans equipped two powerful expeditions to the continent.

Luftwaffe planes photographed vast territories in detail and dropped several thousand metal pennants with a swastika onto the mainland. Captain Ritscher, responsible for the operation, reported personally 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 8.6 million square meters. Of this, 350 thousand square meters were photographed."

The surveyed area was named New Swabia and declared part of the future millennial Reich. Actually, the name was not chosen by chance. Swabia is a medieval duchy that later became part of the unified German state.

The activity of the Nazis in this direction, naturally, did not hide from the Soviet intelligence, as evidenced by a unique document labeled "Top Secret". On January 10, 1939, he lay down on the table for 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 German scientific expedition 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 ​​the 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 "course", "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 there appears to be water at the bottom of the ice sheet. Igor Zotikov, a researcher at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, talked 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 heat removal from the lower surface of the glacier upwards due to its great thickness is very small. In this regard, the entire flow of heat from the bowels of the earth cannot be entirely removed from the boundaries of the "ice - solid bed" interface; part of it must be constantly spent on continuous melting at this boundary.

The following conclusion was made: melt water in the form of a relatively thin film is squeezed out to places where the glacier is thinner. In separate depressions 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, on an area almost equal to the area of ​​Europe, a sea of ​​fresh water is poured. It must be rich in oxygen, which is delivered by the upper layers of ice gradually sinking into the depths and snow. And it is very possible that this subglacial sea has its own, exceptionally peculiar life ... "

There are still unexplored areas in Antarctica, says Sergei Bulat, senior researcher at the Department of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics at the St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics. - The subglacial structure is very diverse, it is a common continental relief, where there are mountains, lakes and so on. There are niches between the continent and the ice, but 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 ice thickness in Central Antarctica is over three kilometers. It is difficult 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 research 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 through it with radars. The result was a topography map of the surface with an area of ​​about 900 square kilometers.

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

But something happened. The researchers found the place from which a small glacier, located at the highest peak (about 2400 meters), began to grow. Gradually, he covered the whole of Antarctica. I 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. Only it is unlikely that you will be able to get to them. But you can try, for example, through drilling.

Some facts

Antarctica has at least four poles. In addition to the geographical South and magnetic, there are also the Pole of Cold and the Pole of the Winds.

In Antarctica, there are such frosts that are not found anywhere on earth. On August 25, 1958, a temperature of 87.4 degrees below zero was recorded at Vostok station.
And the pole of the winds? It is located in Victoria Antarctic Land. Fierce winds rage there all year round. Often the speed of the air force flows exceeds 80 meters per second, which leaves behind the strongest tropical cyclones ...

Plane frozen in the 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 of volcanic eruptions and deposits of iron ores. Diamonds and uranium, gold and rock crystal have already been found here. Each year brings new mysteries to the explorers of the Antarctic continent.

There are fewer and fewer “white” spots on the white continent. However, while the specialists were working on drawing up the map, they saw many unexpected things. And they pretty much broke their heads to explain what they saw.

Volcanoes in ice

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

But if you stand on the surface, no "circles in the ice" are visible - an ordinary snow-covered 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 proves once again that the sixth continent of our planet was not always frozen.

Noah frozen in the ice?

And this picture was liked by lovers of everything anomalous. The picture is unusually similar to the remains of Noah's ark, which, as they say, turned to stone on the slope of Mount Ararat (see photo below). In fact, this is the Dry Valleys region - the only place in Antarctica free of snow.

How icy rivers flow

Such pictures can often be seen from archaeologists. Using aerial photography, they define the contours of ancient cities buried in sand or earth.

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

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