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equipment may be utilised but not for military reasons. neither animals nor humans are immune. Specialists were unable In the years prior to the June 1961 ratification, the USA, UK to explain the source of the virus, though some tried. According and USSR had all used Antarctica for military purposes and all to some scientists, the virus could have been a prehistoric life- three nations were rumoured to have tested nuclear bombs on the form that had been preserved in the ice. However, other continent. On 27 and 30 August and 6 September 1958, at least specia speculated that the virus could have been a secret three such bombs were detonated in Antarctica, allegedly by the biological weapon that had been delivered to Antarctica during Americans. Rumour has it that they were set off in the area of the 1938-39 Deutsche Antarktische Expedition. If a biological Queen Maud Land and were triggered 300 metres above the tar- weapon or virus had been taken to Antarctica, it is doubtful that it get, with the initial aim being to "recover" frozen areas. The loca- would have been unleashed onto the continent intentionally, but, tions of other bomb detonation sites have been firmly suppressed, instead, stored with extreme care. If the Germans really had been but it is believed that the areas reconnoitred by the Germans in the architects of the Antarctic virus and they had taken studious 1939 and 1940 were targeted. care of their weapon, would it be too adventurous to think that the With the Germans and Americans officially claiming to have virus could have been released by an attack of some degree on the found warm-water lakes on their expeditions, it was only a matter very place where it was stored? of time before more were discovered. One such lake, discovered Another mystery may be central to Queen Maud Land and what by the Russians, is Lake Vostok, which is 4,000 metres below the may have happened in 1945. In 1984 the British Antarctic surface and curiously is located under the Russian base camp of — Survey, based at Halley Station,** noticed a hole in the ozone layer Vostok. News of the discovery was not released to the world until _— for the first time; it was located over Queen Maud Land. 1989, so had the Soviets found the Scientists, after much speculation, claimed subterranean lake years earlier and was this that the hole was due to CFCs and in time their main reason for refusing to leave its would increase global warming. Could the base? The lake has still not been investigated, hole, like the virus release, have been caused mainly out of fear of what could be unleashed by a huge explosion of nuclear proportions? and to avoid contamination of the lake, With three known atomic tests and a consid- although a huge magnetic anomaly has been In 1999, an Antarctic erable number undisclosed associated with identified.*° the likely destruction of the Nazi base, it With so many lakes being discovered and research expedition appears that the hole was caused by more with satellites proving that the Antarctic is discovered a virus than just CFCs. made up of huge, ice-encased archipelagos, is Subterranean lakes with signs of life, geot- it unimaginable to believe that a subterranean to which neither hermally warmed lakes in dry valleys in a animals nor humans supposed frozen wasteland, viruses that are immune. trench, wide enough for U-boats to pass through, actually runs through Antarctica, as claimed by author Christof Friedrich and on the Piri Reis map? If the Nazis had built a hidden base in threaten mankind, mysterious holes in the atmosphere allied with suppressed mili- tary ventures may seem the work of fic- tion, and yet they are all fact! Antarctica Neuschwabenland and that base had Specialists were is a truly mysterious place, and that is been destroyed in 1945, leaving only a unable to explain the why it is inconceivable that the Nazis few German Antarctic outposts, then would claim an area and leave it unoccu- source of the virus. pied and undefended, especially when the Channel Islands, for instance, a strategically unimportant Nazi gain, utilised for its defences more than 10 per cent of all the concrete and iron that was used in the construction of the Atlantic Wall—a wall that stretched from the Pyrenées to the North Cape of Norway! However, trying to validate the story any evidence of a Nazi incursion on Antarctica would have been destroyed comprehensively by the nuclear exer- tions of the USA, USSR and UK. Nevertheless, rumours persist that the Nazis were not totally destroyed in Antarctica but fled to secret bases in South America.” Britain's Neuschwabenland Campaign Revisited of the British Neuschwabenland campaign is slightly tougher to If British forces had indeed destroyed the Nazi outpost that was ascertain. Tales of Polar Men, ancient tunnels and a decisive rumoured to have existed amid the Miihlig-Hoffmann Mountains, battle against remnants of the Third Reich appear fanciful. Even this would never be made public nor be given much credence by so, it is widely known that Nazi scientists were experimenting on mainstream historians. Even so, Britain was the nation most men to simulate the freezing conditions of the Eastern Front and active in Antarctica during the 1940s, which is intriguing if not to help their forces better deal with them.” Could the heinous suspicious. Furthermore, Britain was privileged enough to have experiments have been a success of sorts, allowing certain collated a mass of evidence on German Antarctic intentions via soldiers to combat the cold more efficiently? the leading Nazis it apprehended and via its efficient intelligence Tales of ancient tunnels, even tunnels leading through the network and its own field investigations. All of this leads one to Miihlig-Hoffmann Mountains, appear at first far-fetched, but the conclusion that something significant must have occurred would a cavern network, glacially eroded enough, appear there, and it appears only time will tell. Postwar scientific revela- unnatural and thus be explained as a tunnel? Soldiers are not tions suggest that Antarctica was disrupted by human activity at scientists and see things as they are—though whether it was a some time in its near past—a finding that may add credence to the tunnel or a long cavern network that the British had discovered, it likelihood of Britain's Neuschwabenland campaign. ultimately led to a Nazi base. The base could have been similar to In 1999, a research expedition discovered a virus to which the U-boat base that appeared in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark, In 1999, an Antarctic research expedition discovered a virus are immune. Specialists were unable to explain the source of the virus. NEXUS + 29 to which neither animals nor humans DECEMBER 2005 — JANUARY 2006 www.nexusmagazine.com