Regarding Hapgood, had read Robert Argod's book (mentioned
here)
Thank you for the suggestion and I am going to order the book and will look into this.
It looks Hapgood in his previous works, suggested different north pole locations at 50K ( at greenland) and 80K (Alaska) using Paleoclimatic and geological evidence.
This is the revised and expanded edition of his earlier work Earth’s Shifting Crust (1958). In The Path of the Pole, Hapgood presents his most detailed hypothesis of multiple Earth Crust Displacements (pole shifts) over the last ~100,000 years.
### Hapgood’s Proposed Pole Positions (as described in The Path of the Pole)
Hapgood proposed the following sequence based on paleoclimatic evidence:
- ~12,000–17,000 years ago: North Pole moved from the Hudson Bay region to its present position in the Arctic Ocean.
- ~50,000 years ago: North Pole was located in the Greenland Sea (between Iceland and Norway, sometimes described as near Greenland).
- ~75,000–80,000 years ago (or slightly earlier): North Pole was in the Yukon/Alaska region (sometimes referred to as the Bering Sea / Yukon district of Canada).
These are the exact positions you mentioned (Greenland ~50K years ago, Alaska ~80K years ago).
### Data Points Hapgood Used for This Hypothesis
Hapgood relied on paleoclimatic and geological evidence rather than ancient maps for the earlier pole positions (the maps were used more for the recent Hudson Bay shift). Key data points included:
- Deep-sea sediment cores (especially North Atlantic and Arctic cores) showing abrupt changes in ice-rafted debris, foraminifera species, and oxygen isotopes that indicate rapid shifts in polar climate zones.
- Glacial geology and ice-core data from North America and Europe, revealing patterns of glaciation that did not fit a fixed North Pole (e.g., some areas heavily glaciated while nearby regions remained relatively ice-free).
- Radiocarbon and other dating methods that revised the timeline of the Wisconsin glaciation, showing it began much later (~25,000–50,000 years ago) than previously thought.
- Cores from San Augustin Plains (New Mexico) and other North American sites used to correlate climate changes with proposed pole movements.
- Evidence of unglaciated regions in parts of Greenland and northern Europe during periods when they should have been under ice if the pole had been fixed.
Hapgood argued that these climate anomalies could only be explained by the Earth’s outer crust slipping over the mantle, moving the geographic poles to new locations while the axial tilt remained roughly the same.
### Note on the Book
The Path of the Pole is the primary source for the Greenland (50K) and Alaska/Yukon (80K) pole positions. Earth’s Shifting Crust focuses more on the most recent Hudson Bay shift and the general theory.
I got the Hapgood's 'Path of the pole' and started to read it. he tried to address this issue. Since he didn't consider the cometary impact, he tried to explain it with crustal displacement. Does the crustal displacement is local plate or as a complete unit- most probably it is local, though one can push other.
In any case, the physical material can tell direction of magenticism and time, but it can't tell exact location and the location has to be derived relative information and oral tradition of passed down information. So there are many variables in it - asteroid hits, crustal displacement, unpredictable other phenomenon like crystal energy goof up's, hyperdimensional component, and even phenomenon like birkland currents (from local body interactions like mars, cometary venus (Vedic Vishnu) or outside solar system forces etc.). Too many variables.
In Ramayana, the villain Ravana (fictional as per C's) is the king of island called Lanka. Modern day Sri Lanka, got its name only in the 20th century. Where is Lanka, a question raised many times, one of hypotheses proposed and unaccepted is some where in South India. Superman of Ramayan Hanuman (Monkey Hybrid) flew over the water to scout and trace abducted sita (Rama's wife). Recently I came across
one video that suggested Lanka in Sanskrit means 0,0 ( surya siddanta used word called Niraksha, 0 latitude, 0 longitude - location of longitude is consensus of the day ). Is there any truth in it? It depends on the location of Lanka. Moving ( or rotating earth along the trajectory of cometary hit proposed by Pierre) these poles from canada/hudson bay to current position can push india further down to wards equator on the other side (assuming that not all displacement is due to crustal displacement).
"Resonance" to the Ramayan story exist in Thailand, Cambodia, and the Philippines but not to the Australian Aboriginals or Polynesian countries. This leads me to speculate that Rama event happened long after the split from Australia . One can attribute this "Resonance" exclusively to recent migration and eastern trade (from South Indian empires like Cholas around start of common era and buddhist missionaries). But I suspect there is more to it than that.
- If India moved quickly during a cataclysm, it seems more likely that it was the one around 50K years ago, since around 70K the continents still had no more than Jurassic configuration (with India in its old place, attached to or close to Gondwana in the south).
I hear your suggestion of India attaching to the eurasian plate at 50K instead of 'close enough' to 68K C's suggested. I suspect this 'close enough' is around 2K instead of 20K. I suspect there is too much 'credulity' given to Nuclear weapons in the West (mainly due to cold war propaganda) for every thing.
If we see, the configuration of plates during pangea or later on the internet, NOT all pictures show antarctica at the south pole. Infact there is proof that Antarctica moved to south pole. If so, from where? how long did it travel. So many variables here.
Cayce' destructions 50K, 28K, 10K , there is cometary component at 10K (YD), 28K. That makes me wonder whether there is some cometary component at 50K too. I am aware that Cayce material is waay off on Jesus stuff and i don't want to go into all or nothing mode. If all are wrong, he would not have done what he has done.
We will see how the known data fits in to the story.
