Am reading a book, 'The Charlemagne Pursuit',

by one of my favorite authors, Steve Berry, who also wrote one of my all-time favorite books, 'The Templar Legacy'. Mr Berry does a great job with 'historical fiction', but the more I read, the more I see a lot of it is NON-fiction. In 'The Charlemagne Pursuit', he tells of an ancient culture, (seized upon and studied by Hitler and the subject of his Aryan Race), that existed and thrived, thousands of years ago. I thought it was fiction, but the book is based around some ancient maps of Antarctica, that are astonishingly accurate, showing the exact contours of the land, beneath the ice, that has just recently been charted, with the use of ice-penetrating methods, with many flyovers and the work of submarines and modern satellite topographical methods.
Here's where it gets interesting..
There is an ancient map, called the Piri Reis map of Antarctica, (that I THOUGHT was fictional), discovered in 1929, from Turkish sailors of the 16th century, drawn in 1513, (admittedly copied from the Great Library of Alexandria, another great Steve Berry book subject) that shows more detail (it was used to CORRECT modern maps), accurate to less than 1/2 degree of longitude and latitude. BUT, longitude wasn't within modern man's cartography capability, until the 18th century. This 'aerial view' also showed the earth' circumference within 50 miles! Absolutely amazing and unexplainable, since ice has covered the coast for over 6000 years. Google it yourself, Piri Reis map Antarctica, or
Read about it here: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=37429135#editor/target=post;postID=8252102694018584577

The Controversy 

The Piri Reis map shows the western coast of Africa, the eastern coast of South America, and the northern coast of Antarctica. The northern coastline of Antarctica is perfectly detailed. The most puzzling however is not so much how Piri Reis managed to draw such an accurate map of the Antarctic region 300 years before it was discovered, but that the map shows the coastline under the ice. Geological evidence confirms that the latest date Queen Maud Land could have been charted in an ice-free state is 4000 BC. 

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_1.htm