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An enlargement of a paper published in vol. CLI and CLII of the Journal of the Franklin institute The legendary "Terra Australis incognita" and voyages leading from a belief to a disbelief in it.--Voyages up to and including the discovery of the continent of Antarctica.--Voyages subsequent to the discovery of the continent of Antarctica
Grey-skinned (sometimes green-skinned) humanoids, usually 1 m (3.3 ft) tall, hairless, with large heads, black almond-shaped eyes, nostrils without a nose, slits for mouths, no ears and 3–4 fingers including thumb. Greys have been the predominant extraterrestrial beings of alleged alien contact since the 1960s. [5] Hopkinsville goblin [6] [7] [8]
In 1962, she was reclassified as an Oceanographic Research Ship and became the world's first dedicated Antarctic research vessel, a role she filled until 1975. On 29 August 1964, while taking sample cores and photographing the seabed west of Cape Horn , South America, the Eltanin took the photograph reproduced in this article, at position 59 ...
A speculative representation of Antarctica labelled as ' Terra Australis Incognita ' on Jan Janssonius's Zeekaart van het Zuidpoolgebied (1657), Het Scheepvaartmuseum The name given to the continent originates from the word antarctic, which comes from Middle French antartique or antarctique (' opposite to the Arctic ') and, in turn, the Latin antarcticus (' opposite to the north ').
Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials (1979; second edition 1987) is a science fiction-themed book by artist Wayne Barlowe, with Ian Summers and Beth Meacham (who provided the text). It contains Barlowe's visualizations of different extraterrestrial life forms from various works of science fiction, with information on their planetary location or ...
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
The Amundsen Sea area of Antarctica Antarctic iceberg floating in the Amundsen Sea water, October 2009. The Amundsen Sea is an arm of the Southern Ocean off Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica. It lies between Cape Flying Fish (the northwestern tip of Thurston Island) to the east and Cape Dart on Siple Island to the west.
The theory holds that ALH84001 was blasted away from the surface of Mars by the impact of a meteor about 17 million years ago, [11] and fell on Earth about 13,000 years ago. [12] These dates were established by a variety of radiometric dating techniques, including samarium–neodymium (Sm–Nd), rubidium–strontium (Rb–Sr), potassium–argon ...