{"id":29200,"date":"2015-12-19T09:59:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=29200"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:50:33","slug":"sharpe-richard-dowlder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sharpe-richard-dowlder\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharpe, Richard Dowdler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richard Bowdler<\/strong><strong> Sharpe<\/strong><strong> (1847-1909) <\/strong>was an English zoologist, who specialised in ornithology. In <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sharpe_Richard_Browdler_1847-1909.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29203\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29203\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sharpe_Richard_Browdler_1847-1909-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sharpe_Richard_Browdler_1847-1909\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sharpe_Richard_Browdler_1847-1909-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sharpe_Richard_Browdler_1847-1909.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a>1893 he suggested that a huge continent centred on the South Pole had existed in the southern hemisphere. Newspaper reports tell us that this highly speculative continent had embraced <em>&#8220;South America, Madagascar, Mauritius, New Zealand and Australia; and thus he explained the existence of the cognate struthious birds that now exist, or once existed, in those countries.&#8221;<\/em><sup>(b)<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although it might seem strange that Sharpe did not mention <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/antarctica\/\">Antarctica,<\/a>\u00a0but, it is understandable, as the first recorded and confirmed landing on Antarctica did not take place until 1895<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antarctica\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antarctica<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/ndp\/del\/article\/193416344?searchTerm=Plato%20Atlantis&amp;searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/ndp\/del\/article\/193416344?searchTerm=Plato Atlantis&amp;searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909) was an English zoologist, who specialised in ornithology. In 1893 he suggested that a huge continent centred on the South Pole had existed in the southern hemisphere. Newspaper reports tell us that this highly speculative continent had embraced &#8220;South America, Madagascar, Mauritius, New Zealand and Australia; and thus he explained the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[91,4375],"class_list":["post-29200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-antarctica","tag-richard-bowdler-sharpe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64223,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29200\/revisions\/64223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}