# The Piri Reis map and earth crust displacement

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 22, 2001, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-piri-reis-map-and-earth-crust-displacement/66168 "2001-05-22T04:54:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-piri-reis-map-and-earth-crust-displacement/66168/1 "2001-05-22T04:54:11Z")

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Dopers,

I’m working on a paper regarding the view of Graham Hancock, my favorite pseudoscientist, that Atlantis is Antarctica.

Now, I realize that the Peri Reis map is dumb and earth crust displacement isn’t the most sound theory in the world.

But why?

Any search I’m doing only conjures up the most amusing “Atlantis aliens pyramids blah blah blah”

But all I can really find in response is that it’s wrong. Nothing I’ve been able to drege up yet says exactly why.

Halp?

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-piri-reis-map-and-earth-crust-displacement/66168/2 "2001-05-22T06:09:35Z")

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Try searching for **Piri Reis** , which is the usual spelling. It is believed to have been made in 1513 by an Admiral of the Ottoman Empire named Piri Reis. It was lost for centuries but turned up again in 1929. The map is genuine, as far as I know, but it seems to be a magnet for all kinds of kooks, for reasons I don’t really understand. One Internet site you might find useful is one I can’t manage to link to. You’ll have to paste the URL into your browser.

[http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/Theories/Electromagnetism/Worlds\_Below\_\_/Legend\_of\_the\_Lost/Piri\_Reis\_Map/piri\_reis\_map.html](http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/Theories/Electromagnetism/Worlds_Below__/Legend_of_the_Lost/Piri_Reis_Map/piri_reis_map.html)

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> Piri Reis map shows a correct and continuous shoreline along the north and east coast of South America. One can see the Amazon, and then past the “hub” of Brazil one can follow the shoreline down to the river with three heads (Rio Plata) and then follow it along Argentina, where, on the Piri Reis map, the cartographer bent it eastward to keep it on the paper. **For some odd reason some have claimed this is Antarctica before the ice age, indicating the map is based on prehistoric originals.**  
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> Graham Hancock’s use of the map is the most surprising, since long before the 1990s von Däniken’s ideas, including those on the Piri Reis map, had been soundly countered by Dr. Clifford Wilson’s _Crash Go The Chariots_ and Ron Story’s _Space Gods Revealed_.

[my bolding]