The Treshnikov is on the second leg of their circumnavigation seen in ORANGE dotted lines below. Leg one is in YELLOW. The trip from Hobart, Australia was the transition point. As you can see below on my modified Gleason projection map, the mission is between 150 and 165 E longitude and headed south of what I think is the 60 deg S latitude line toward McMurdo/Scott-- McMurder being the biggest research station on Antarctica-- and the gateway to the South Pole Rim-- at 90 Deg S. "inland" from the rim on the flat earth.
Here is another of my attempts to overlay someone's flat earth projection with some extra information to give context...
My positioning of the stations is inaccurate since I'm eyeballing it. And the coast line is only a rough approximation. You can see Australia/Hobart on the right, with Scott south of it. The LIGHT GREEN light was my earlier attempt to draw a freehand route of the Treshnikov. The AQUA line is the wide circumnavigation and the RED line is the shorter route around the world that a cheater would take. My interest in looking at this part of the map is that the Treshnikov is no EN ROUTE from Australia toward McMurdo on its second leg. It's interesting to note that there are no plans to rendezvous at Scott or McMurdo despite all parties being involved in research. Note the location of the South Pole as well.
Here's a clearer picture of the section of Gleason map where the Treshnikov says it is right now, without the research stations. Scott station would be on the PENINSULA that sticks out on the left labelled "SOUTH VICTORIA LAND" and McMurdo would be located on land inside the BAY created by the PENINSULA.
The South Polar Institute's map of their own mission lacks the research station locations and labels and my own locations for those are inaccurately place on the flat earth projections above. All I can do at the moment is approximate where all of these elements are. I'll try to tighten up accuracy as we go. Note that the second leg of the mission is headed to Macquarie Island, then to Mertz and so on. I'll watch for those place names on other maps I review in coming days.
https://rickpotvinflatearth.blogspot.com/search/label/radar%20system%20-%20west%20antarctica
This section of the radar map shows Zucchelli Station and McMurdo Station. I believe the New Zealand station Scott would be to the right of 160 E longitude. I don't know what all the radar stations are for. They say they're measuring earthquakes with them. I'm not even sure that that makes sense. I thought earthquakes were measured with seismographs.
https://rickpotvinflatearth.blogspot.com/search/label/Inspection%20tour%201983
Note the location of the BALLENY ISLANDS above since the Swiss Polar Institute's ACE mission has put those islands on their itinerary. Note SCOTT STATION is no located on the map from this 1983 INSPECTION TOUR. Note that you can see CASEY STATION in the top right. Note the DATE LABELS as the points of rendezvous. Note the 1983 Inspection tour BEGAN on Jan. 21 at McMurdo whereas the TRESHNIKOV is travelling in the opposite direction. Note the location of the SOUTH MAGNETIC POLE because the Treshnikov is now headed there where there is also located MERTZ Island-- not seen in the above map but located of the ADELIE COAST.
https://rickpotvinflatearth.blogspot.com/search/label/miles%20between%20stations%20chart
Yet another map I overlayed with more data- this one of the miles between research stations. Note the location of SCOTT and McMURDO-- right next to each other-- so they can be regarded as the SAME locatdion. Note we have something that looks like HALLEY north of that. I'm not sure what that is yet-- although it looks like some sort of station. On the Swiss Polar Institute's ACE map we see this....
It looks like what was LENINGRATSKIA is south of BALLENY. It also looks like the route of Treshnikov is OFF THE COAST NORTH OF HALLEY above, and that Treshnikov will visit BALLENY and SCOTT islands but not venture into the bay toward McMURDO and SCOTT STATION. There are no reearch stations on Balleny and Scott Islands so it will be difficult to verify that the Treshnikov docked at either one. It's difficult to say if they will dock or send in inflatables.
Note that previous missions that claim circumnavigations cut wildly north after rounding Australia. Note that you can see the peninsula justting out on the maps above that indicates the rough location of McMurdo Station. I'm not sure if the red line defining the short cut in the maps above would be enough of a short cut off a flat earth circumference of 60,000 miles to be possible however. These may be wildly inaccurate but I'm just going with what's available and interpreted by others given what we think we know.
https://rickpotvinflatearth.blogspot.com/search/label/circumnavigation%20by%20water%20-%20geoshifter
https://iridium.globalalerting.com/public-map/caa339bf-12db-4a48-a40e-0a55bfe28e05
It appears as though the Treshnikov is near the coast and the South Magnetic Pole, Mertz Island AND....
....AND the DUMONT d'URVILLE station. Note that the 1983 Inspection Tour was off the ADELIE COAST on January 28 as well! Quite a coincidence that the Treshnikov is off the ADELIE COAST on Jan 28-- same date. The last update to the ship's position on SHIPSPOTTING.com was over a month ago so its impossible to verify location right now.
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1662317
Anyone can see that the map from IRIDIUM, two images above, is simple compared to the 1983 map immediately above. If you listen to the description of how IRIDIUM works, you'll be as baffled as I became with the jibberish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-uBhEIXiqY
DUMONT D'URVILLE is described in this Wikipedia entry...
Looking at a fantastic map I just found-- that is easily scalable, you can see Dumont Durville and Mertz Glacier.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110220074600/https://www.comnap.aq/publications/maps/comnap_map_edition5_a0_2009-07-24.pdf
Zooming in we see Dumont more clearly...
https://web.archive.org/web/20110220074600/https://www.comnap.aq/publications/maps/comnap_map_edition5_a0_2009-07-24.pdf
Note that Dumont is to the west of MERTZ.... that Treshnikov was very close to Dumont but did not station there. I looked at the KEY for the symbols and the 3 SQUARES in the red square to the left of PRUDHOMEE is a "camp".
There isn't much detail as we zoom in closer. Note that Dumont appears close to where Treshnikov wants to be-- Mertz.
It appears as though it might be easy to dock at Dumont D'urville since it's right on the coast with open water. The Wikipedia article above refers to the several supply ships that make round trips from Hobart during the southern hemisphere summer. It's a well populated research station.
http://terreadelie.sblanc.com/pages/photos-de-la-base-dumont-d-urville.htm
Among the 21 photos at the link above, we have this one with stars. Someone who know stars could possible check dates and star positions to see if they're consistent with what we think we know star positions are. The Treshnikov has not delivered any star pictures yet.
http://terreadelie.sblanc.com/pages/videos-d-antarctique.htm
There are a number of videos on this homepage for Dumont that might be interesting in terms of what the scene could look like for Treshnikov-- which seems lax on reporting.
Iridium is indeed a strange outfit.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.two10degrees.com/
Why have I never heard about it?
No, on the contrary Felix-- I think Iridium was one of the first multi-satellite communications companies to exist. I thought they collapsed. But they're back now.
DeleteGoogle God says
https://www.google.com/search?q=iridium&btnG=Search&num=100&newwindow=1&safe=off&hl=en&gl=us&authuser=0
Iridium says its everywhere and its homepage features a rocket that looks fake.
https://www.iridium.com/
AS you're likely aware, satellites don't exist and telecommunications take place via undersea cables and overland on radar like systems. So this entire Iridium satellite hoax is a subset of the satellite hoax in general. This leads me to believe that the entire Swiss Polar Institute's ACE trip might be a hoax since I haven't seen any coordinates or photos of stars to verify location in the old fashioned way. For 160 on board participants, *they say, there is certainly a dearth of social media-- as far as I can tell.
I'm beginning to think that it's worth considering that the entire mission is being faked by some guy drinking beer sitting in front of his computer screen in his pj's. But wait, that's me!
This new Iridium outfit looks like it's run by a handful of ex- British Telecom research staff and the only connection I see with a previous operation is in the name. Nothing at all on their website about the "recently formed" Swiss Polar Institute and the circumnavigation they're assisting. This expedition does indeed appear very hoaxy.
DeleteNot wanting to go too far off piste, Iridium is still "launching" satellites in 2017
Deletehttps://spaceflightnow.com/2017/01/14/spacex-resumes-flights-with-on-target-launch-for-iridium/
again, nothing to link it with a few people in Suffolk, England
http://www.rod.sladen.org.uk/iridium.htm
"The comeback mission kicks off a busy launch manifest with more than 20 SpaceX rocket flights expected this year as the company prepares to start launching astronauts, vital national security payloads and a slate of valuable telecommunications satellites for global broX...hmmmadcasters and network clients."
Hmmmm...