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The Bimini Road is an underwater rock formation near North Bimini island in the Bahamas. Discovered in 1968 , it is generally assumed to be of natural origins.[citation needed] The Road consists of approximately one half-mile of limestone blocks, lying in a semi-rectangular pattern, with the blocks themselves appearing to being rectangular in shape. Image File history File links BiminiRoadOverhead2. ...
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Bimini Island from space, June 1998 Map of the Bahamas with the Biminis positioned center left (click to enlarge). ...
As a result of the unusual arrangement of stones, and the shape of the stones themselves, some believe the formation is an ancient road, wall or the remains of some other man-made structure. Among those who believe that the Bimini Road is an artificial structure, some believe that it is an artifact of the mythical lost civilization of Atlantis, based in part on predictions made by Edgar Cayce. In 1938, Cayce made the following prediction: Picture of Platos description of Atlantis Atlantis (Greek: , Island of Atlas) is the name of a legendary island first mentioned in Platos dialogues Timaeus and Critias. ...
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- "A portion of the temples may yet be discovered under the slime of ages and sea water near Bimini... Expect it in '68 or '69 - not so far away."[1][2][3][4].
In his 2002 book 1421: The Year China Discovered The World, author Gavin Menzies proposed that the road is a submerged emergency drydock used by a Chinese Imperial fleet exploring the Caribbean between 1421 and 1423 . Menzies hypothesizes that the ships were caught in a storm and that to commence repairs, the fleet had to create an ad hoc drydock using their large, rectangular ballast stones. Since sea levels were approximately six feet lower six centuries ago, Menzies believes that the now submerged Bimini Road stones were once on the shore of North Bimini Island. (Redirected from 1421: The Year China Discovered The World) The 1421 theory is a term to describe a theory from former British Royal Navy submarine commander Gavin Menzies. ...
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U.S. Navy submarine USS Greeneville in dry dock following collision with a fishing boat. ...
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Sci-Fi’s “Quest for Atlantis: Startling New Secrets” (aired July 2006) followed several different groups researching possible locations for the legendary Atlantis, one of which focused on the Bimini Road. Dr. Greg Little, an amateur archaeologist, led one team of researchers on a dive to recover what he believes are Atlantean-era objects at the famed 'Bimini Road' off the coast of Bimini Island. Little and his team made a discovery: an entire second layer of square-cut rocks with similar dimensions beneath the stones of the Bimini Road.[citation needed] Greg Little believes that his discovery suggests the Bimini Road may actually be part of an entire wall or water dock of some sort. Sci-fi is an abbreviation for science fiction. ...
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Geologist Eugene Shinn, while still an employee of the US Geological Service in Miami[5] did a thorough analysis of the rocks and concluded that they are "beach rock", a form of limestone that forms along the tidal areas of the shoreline. He asserts:
- The geometry of the formation conforms to older shorelines of the island.
- Core samples taken from several rocks reveal that they formed in place because layers of stratification have identical orientation
- Similar formations are found throughout the Bahamas
- The age of the rocks are 2000 to 4000 years old [6]
Another natural explanation is that the "road" is an example of tessellated pavement, a natural phenomenon. Concretions of shell and sand form hard sedimentary rock which over time fractures in straight lines and then at ninety degree angles. They are quite common and a popular tourist attraction on the island of Tasmania;[7] some also can be seen on the coast of Venezuela.[8] Tessellated pavement is a rare sedimentary rock formation that occurs on some ocean shores, so named because it fractures into square blocks that appear like tiles, or tessellations. ...
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This recently uncovered Chinese map, made in 1763 and claimed by its creator to be based on a 1418 Chinese map, suggests that medieval China had extensive knowledge of the Americas and Antarctica - The Economist, January 12, 2006 The 1421 hypothesis of Chinese contact with the Americas originates from former...
Bimini Island from space, June 1998 Map of the Bahamas with the Biminis positioned center left (click to enlarge). ...
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Notes - ^ http://www.crystalinks.com/biminiroad.html
- ^ http://www.subversiveelement.com/BiminiRoad.html
- ^ http://www.mysterious-america.net/bimini-caysal200.html
- ^ http://www.biminiundersea.com/atlantis.htm
- ^ Exploration and analysis of the road
- ^ (1980) "Bahamian Atlantis reconsidered". Nature (287): 11-12. Retrieved on 2007-07-28.
- ^ http://walkabout.com.au/locations/TASEaglehawkNeck.shtml
- ^ http://www.bcskeptics.info/resources/skeptopaedia/index.cgi?key=bimini%20road.html
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