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ATLANTIS & the Atlantic Ocean

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« Reply #195 on: December 27, 2008, 09:26:35 pm »


Yet America is much more difficult to reach from Asia than from Europe; that is, if one is able to cross oceans. But that was probably not possible before the time of the Vikings. One can sail from Japan to Mexico by following the islands and the coast, although one has to sail against the current sometimes. On a orthographic projection of the world with the North Pole as centre it can be seen that a voyage past Alaska is not really as far as it appears on a world map in Mercator projection. In the Mercator projection the regions near the North and South Pole are stretched. 1 - the voyage of Columbus in 1492; 2 - the voyages of the Vikings Eric the Red and Leif Eriksson around 1000; 3 - a voyage from Asia to America through the northern Pacific Ocean.
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