The Piri Reis map is a famous pre-modern world map compiled in 1513 from military intelligence by the Ottoman-Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. The half of the map which survives shows the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the coast of Brazil with reasonable accuracy. Various Atlantic islands including the Azores and Canary Islands are depicted, as is the mythical island of Antillia and possibly Japan. The map has been used to claim an ancient knowledge of an ice-free Antarctica, transmitted either from extra-terrestrials or an Ice Age civilization . . . Yea - you think he / they had some help??? But who has the seismic technology at this time to be able to see thru a mile thick sheet of ice to be able to map Antartica? Or as some say, the only way to map this area with such longitudinal and latitudinal precision is thru aerial surveillance . . . HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
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