Bucking the system. (Point of View).Watch out Christopher Columbus, the world's explorers are rapidly making a myth out of the "discovery" of America US. explorer Phil Buck is sailing a reed boat, the Viracocha II, some 18,300 kilometers to Sydney, Australia from Vina del Mar Vi·ña del Mar A city of central Chile, a resort and residential suburb of Valparaíso on the Pacific Ocean. Population: 307,000. Noun 1. , Chile to show that indigenous people could have made the voyage long before 1492. In his first expedition in 2000, Buck sailed a Bolivian-built reed ship 5,630 kilometers to Easter Island Easter Island, Span. Isla de Pascua, Polynesian Rapa Nui, remote island (1992 pop. 2,770), 66 sq mi (171 sq km), in the South Pacific, c.2,200 mi (3,540 km) W of Chile, to which it belongs. from the Chilean shore. The adventurer forms part of a growing list of explorers and historians who are pushing the cause of pre-Columbian continental contact. Spanish explorer Kitin Munoz attempted and failed to achieve the same voyage as Buck in 1998 and 1999. A Norwegian lawyer named Helge Ingstad Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. After mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine, an archaeologist, in 1961 found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows on Newfoundland. in 1961 brought ashore the Viking saga about discovering "Vinland" after finding ruins of a Viking settlement in Newfoundland. More recently, amateur British historian Gavin Menzies writes in his book, "1421: The Year China Discovered America," that Admiral Zheng He--also known as Sin Bao, or the legendary Sinbad in English--led a Chinese fleet around the Cape of Good Hope Noun 1. Cape of Good Hope - a point of land in southwestern South Africa (south of Cape Town) 2. Cape of Good Hope - a province of western South Africa Cape of Good Hope n → in 1421. "When he landed, Columbus was said to have made a great mistake, saying that he had encountered Chinese people," Menzies told The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. "I think he did encounter Chinese people!" So, don't be surprised if Buck finds Mapuche Indians in Australia. |
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