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Here are some incredible Arctic mysteries to whet your appetite:-

1. As a result of my first appearance on the Art Bell show in September 1999, a listener told me about an amazing 4 page article from Popular Science magazine in 1923.

2. Below is a photograph of a piece of land which does not exist. The most fascinating aspect of Dr Cook's story was his photograph of a place he called Bradley Land. He had taken a photograph of a very large piece of land out in the Arctic Ocean to the north west of Canada.

In Cook's Bradley Land photograph (above), we can see his sledges in the foreground and large hills in the background. Those are the hills of Bradley Land - a land which does not exist! Cook marked Bradley Land on his maps. I was struck by the fact that Bradley Land was very close to Peary's Crocker Land! It is very interesting that the two foremost polar explorers of that time should both give solid reports of land in virtually the same area. Since Cook was later thrown in prison (for a crime he never committed) he was simply accused of faking this photograph.

3. 100 years ago an Amercian scientist, Dr R. Harris of the Geodetic Survey, noted something strange about tides along the northern coastline of Alaska. He wrote in an article in the National Geographic that he believed a massive piece of land was interfering with the tide coming from the north. Take a look at this image produced by a modern scientist who is a tidal specialist. It shows how all tides in the Arctic are dampened and die down to the West of Canada. The round dark blue spot is not far from where Admiral Peary sited Crocker Land.

http://www.hollowplanets.com/