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    Post The Northwest Passage - How a Fake Mountain Range Slowed Down Arctic Exploration

    How a Fake Mountain Range Slowed Down Arctic Exploration -- The 19th-century naval officer John Ross had a knack for seeing land where it wasn’t.

    Some are born great; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them. And some narrowly miss greatness, kept from it by a pesky propensity to imagine land where there is none. Such is the case of Ross, who was just one fake mountain range away from discovering a critical entrance to the Northwest Passage, and more lasting explorational fame. No one is sure why he saw them—but, in the words of one biographer, the false mountains “would haunt Ross for the rest of his life.”

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    Wow, that is odd.
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    I wonder if he was ever put on duty for the Night watch after that.
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    Possibly some sort of mirage? Similar to seeing an oasis, or water source, while dying of thirst in the desert, because your mind makes you see it? Just thinking out loud here...

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    I remember once when steaming from Vietnam back to Japan we were 1000 miles from land in any direction. The weather was clear and the seas were calm. Suddenly out of nowhere on the horizon there appeared the lights of a major sized city. It was impossible to be anything but there is was. Nothing appeared on radar so it wasn't a well lighted ship. We never identified what the actual event was but best and most logical guess was it as a temperature inversion which created a fog bank. As for the brightness that could very well be explained by the overwhelming presence of bio luminescence in the sea shining on the fog. We had seen "ghost ships" where you could see the wake of the ship as bright as daylight but the ship itself was invisible in the dark. A lot of strange things out there in the dark and lonely reaches of the sea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    How a Fake Mountain Range Slowed Down Arctic Exploration -- The 19th-century naval officer John Ross had a knack for seeing land where it wasn’t.

    Some are born great; some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them. And some narrowly miss greatness, kept from it by a pesky propensity to imagine land where there is none. Such is the case of Ross, who was just one fake mountain range away from discovering a critical entrance to the Northwest Passage, and more lasting explorational fame. No one is sure why he saw them—but, in the words of one biographer, the false mountains “would haunt Ross for the rest of his life.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    I have an idea of what it was.

    Hillary?

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