{"id":3211,"date":"2010-06-07T12:48:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T12:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/finaeus-oronteus\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T10:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:04:32","slug":"finaeus-oronteus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/finaeus-oronteus\/","title":{"rendered":"Finaeus, Oronteus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oronteus<\/strong> Finaeus<\/strong> (1494-1555)<\/strong> was a celebrated\u00a0<\/strong>cartographer\u00a0who produced a map in 1531 which is claimed by some that, like the Piri Reis <\/a>\"Oronteus<\/a>Map<\/a>, it depicts the coast of an ice-free Antarctica<\/a>. Charles Hapgood<\/a> rediscovered it in 1959(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> in the Library of Congress. This idea is then used to support the concept of the existence of a very early civilisation that was capable of sophisticated map-making. It is then just a short step to name this civilisation \u2018Atlantis\u2019. Some, such as the Flem-Aths, went further and actually nominated Antarctica as the home of Atlantis.<\/p>\n

Robert Argod<\/a> has used the Oronteus Finaeus Map to support his contention that the Polynesians originated in Antarctica.<\/p>\n

Christine Pellech<\/a> has an article published on the Atlantisforschung<\/a> website taken from her 2013 book Die Entdeckung von Amerika <\/em>[1188<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0 (The Discovery of America)<\/em>, in which she reviews the range of medieval maps displaying geographical details ‘unknown’ until centuries later!(e<\/sup>)<\/sup> Her reference to the Mark McMenamin coins can be ignored as they have since been shown to be forgeries (See: Sardinia<\/a>).<\/p>\n

However, a contrary view has been expressed by Paul Heinrich, <\/a>who, commenting on Graham Hancock’s<\/a> assertion that the map shows an ice-free Antarctica, points out that in the case of West Antarctica, the underlying bedrock is, in the main, hundreds of feet below<\/em><\/strong> sea level and would not show on a real map of the region(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

A more recent website(<\/sup>b<\/sup>)<\/sup>, although not endorsing an Antarctic Atlantis, discusses some of these old maps in very great detail <\/b>and on Graham Hancock’s website. The site is based on a number of chapters from a work-in-progress, T<\/em>he <\/em>A<\/em>tlantis <\/em>M<\/em>aps: <\/em>T<\/em>he <\/em>R<\/em>ise of <\/em>A<\/em>tlantis and the <\/em>F<\/em>all of a <\/em>P<\/em>aradigm <\/em>by Doug Fisher<\/a>. He identifies the Plain of Mesopotamia in Northern Argentina<\/a> as the location of Atlantis.<\/p>\n

(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/archive.aramcoworld.com\/issue\/198001\/piri.reis.and.the.hapgood.hypotheses.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

(<\/sup>b<\/sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180831132132\/https:\/\/www.atlantismaps.com\/<\/p>\n

^30.10.2020 \u00a0“This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.”<\/p>\n

(c) <\/sup>http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220703122643\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-3967\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(d<\/sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/grahamhancock.com\/author\/doug-fisher\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(e<\/sup>)<\/sup> Knowledge of America, the Arctic, Antarctica and Australia on old maps \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oronteus Finaeus (1494-1555) was a celebrated\u00a0cartographer\u00a0who produced a map in 1531 which is claimed by some that, like the Piri Reis Map, it depicts the coast of an ice-free Antarctica. Charles Hapgood rediscovered it in 1959(a) in the Library of Congress. This idea is then used to support the concept of the existence of a […]<\/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":[91,2831,1983,261,2392,248,3465,1695,463,2830,916,262,447,100],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-antarctica","tag-argentina","tag-atlantisforschung","tag-charles-hapgood","tag-christine-pellech","tag-doug-fisher","tag-grahan-hancock","tag-mark-mcmenamin","tag-mesopotamia","tag-oronteus-finaeus","tag-paul-heinrich","tag-piri-reis-map","tag-robert-argod","tag-sardinia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","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=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66356,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/66356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}