Month: June 2024

I am going to be taking a close look in this post of the islands and lands of the South Atlantic and South Indian Oceans, starting with the Brazilian possessions of the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago off the coast of Brazil near Natal, and the Trinidade and Martin Vaz Archipelago, off the Brazilian coast at Espirito Santo; to the British Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha, which today is part of the British Overseas Territory of the South Atlantic which also includes Ascension Island and St. Helena; to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands of the Kerguelen islands, the Crozet Islands, Adelie Land, the French claim on the continent of Antarctica, the Scattered Islands, and the islands of St. Paul and Amsterdam.

I did a a 23-part series in 2020 called “Sacred Geometry, Ley Lines & Places in Alignment” in which I tracked a long-distance alignment of cities and places that started in San Francisco from which most of the research in this post came.

So far in 2024, I have posted the following from the original 2020 series:

The Ancient Advanced Civilization in Southeast Asia – From Manila in the Philippines to Dhaka in Bangladesh;” “The Ancient Advanced Civilization in Armenia, Anatolia & the Aegean Sea;” “The Ancient Advanced Civilization in the Mediterranean Sea from the Strait of Messina to Malta;” and :The Ancient Advanced Civilization in North Africa and the Cape Verde Islands.”

I have collected a variety of puzzle pieces about different places from the process of tracking cities and places in several different alignments over the years, bringing a bigger picture into focus that is not immediately apparent on the surface from this type of geographically-focused research.

I am picking up the alignment where it crosses over Fernando de Noronha, the name of the main island and its archipelago, off the coast of Brazil near the city of Natal.

It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site…and on at least two other alignments that I know of.

The main island has an area of 7.1 square miles, or 18.4 kilometers-squared, and the archipelago’s total area is 10 square miles, or 26 kilometers-squared.

So what I just found that is really interesting about this place is that in its relatively small area, there were at least ten star forts here at one time.

The largest and best-preserved is the Forteleza Nossa Senhora dos Remedios.

The Forte de Sao Jose do Morro was the only fort built on a secondary island.  It still has imposing ruins.

Interesting to note that while the Portuguese word “morro” translates to “hill or mound,” there is definitely a “moor” sound contained within it.

The Forte de Santa Cruz do Pico was described as a small redoubt, defined as a temporary or supplemental fortification, typically square or polygonal.

Forte de Santo Antonio construction was an irregular, four-sided, polygon.

You can see the Forte de Santa Cruz do Pico framed through this archway at the Forte de Santo Antonio…

…like what you see of the Winter Turret through this arch at Arches National Park in Utah…

…at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado…

…at the Hole-in-the-Wall on Rialto Beach on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula…

…and at Petra in Jordan.

There is no doubt in my mind that these alignments were intentional and not coincidental.

There will be more examples of what appears to be intentional kinds of things throughout this post, and not the result of natural forces.

The Forte de Sant’ana was situated over the old harbor in the Vila dos Remedios.

Ruins of the Forte de Nossa Senhora da Conceicao are visible in the vegetation.

This is an old map of the Forte de Sao Pedro do Boldro.

People come to the Lookout Fort Boldro for sunsets. 

There is a good view from the Lookout Fort Boldro of the Two Brothers Rock, which appears to be in alignment with the sun…

…like Keyhole Rock at Pfeiffer Beach at Big Sur in California, where the light comes through the Keyhole arch perfectly during the winter solstice time-of-year in December and January…

…a solar alignment at Monument Rocks National Natural Landmark, otherwise known as the Chalk Pyramids, in Gove County, Kansas…

…at Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park in Utah…

…and at Durdle Door, near Lulworth, England, in Dorset, during the winter solstice period.

Back on Fernando de Noronha, there was also the Forte de Sao Bautista dos dois Irmaios…

…the Forte de San Juaquim do Sueste…

…and lastly the Forte do Bom Jesus do Leao.

It is interesting to note that two other places with a high concentration of star forts like Fernando de Noronha, one being Bermuda in the North Atlantic Ocean…

…another being at Alderney in the Channel Islands off the coast of France in the English Channel…

…are in a linear geometric relationship to each other.

I typically find star forts in pairs and clusters on alignments all over the Earth, and believe they were not military in nature as we have been taught. I think they functioned as part of the electrical circuitry of the earth’s worldwide grid system.

One of the definitions of the word battery is “a device that produces electricity that may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series, as well as a battery source of energy which provides a push, or a voltage, of energy to get the current flowing in a circuit.”

We are told the island group of Fernando de Noronha was named after a wealthy Portuguese merchant Fernao de Loronha, who was granted the first captaincy of the islands of Sao Joao da Quaresma.

He was the financier and organizer of a private commercial expedition to exploit Brazil wood from new lands to the Crown, and the flagship of the expedition he organized to do this hit a reef near the island in 1503 and had to be salvaged.

There was an island named Quaresma in the cartographic record, showing up in a map called the Cantino Planisphere, said to have been completed by an anonymous Portuguese cartographer before 1502.

A planisphere is defined as a map formed by the projection of a sphere or part of a sphere on a plane.

There are a couple of things I would like to point out the Cantino Planisphere.

The first is that the earth’s leylines appear on it…

…which also appear on the Catalan Atlas of the Majorcan Cartographic School. The Catalan Atlas is considered the most important map of the Medieval period in the Catalan language, dated to 1375.

This is a depiction of the Iberian Peninsula, with Madrid in its center, in the Catalan Atlas.

The Catalan Atlas all together has six vellum leaves, each being 26 inches, or 65 centimeters, by 20 inches, or 50 centimeters in size. Each leaf includes the mapping of the geometric lines and shapes that you see depicted here.

It would seem that the Earth’s grid-lines started to disappear from maps in the 1500s, when Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer, cartographer and cosmographer…

…published a world map in 1569 that is considered to be the first where sailing courses on the sphere were mapped to the plane map, allowing for a “correction of the chart to be more useful for sailors.”

Here is a close-up section of the 1569 map showing the depiction of straight ley-lines in the seas, but not on land and sea as were present on the flat projections of the Cantino Planisphere and the Catalan Atlas.

Not only that, Mercator was also a globe-maker, like this one from 1541.

So Mercator was said to have made a revolutionary flat projection map that corrected the chart for sailors…and the earth as a globe as well?

That’s interesting, because of another thing that was happening in our historical narrative Shortly thereafter.

In May of 1543, the work “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres,” of Nicolaus Copernicus was published, offering mathematical arguments for the heliocentric, or sun-centered universe, and denying the geocentric model of the Earth-centered universe of Ptolemy, which the heliocentric model superceded, meaning that while once widely-accepted, current science considered the geocentric model inadequate.

History has it recorded that Copernicus had been seized with “apoplexy and paralysis” at the end of 1542, and that he died on the day he saw the final printed pages of his work, allowing him to say farewell to his life’s work.

I think it is important to include some information here about different concepts of space and time.

The study of geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding the Earth’s shape, orientation in space, and gravitational field.

A geographic coordinate system enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters and symbols, where one of the numbers represents a vertical position, and the horizontal position, from the East-West lines of longitude.

What we are told is that in cartography, the science of map-making, a map projection is the way of flattening the globe’s surface into a plane in order to make it into a map, which requires a systematic transformation of the latitudes and longitudes of locations from the surface of the globe into locations on a plane.

But what if the same process is actually happening in reverse for the tools we have available to us in our world, and that the Earth’s surface has been projected from a plane in order to make it into a globe shape by the use of the very same geographic coordinate system, and that it’s exactly the same information in a different projection?

After all, one definition of the word “coordinate” is “to bring different elements into a relationship that will ensure efficiency or harmony;” and another definition of the same word is “a group of numbers used to indicate the position of a point, line, or plane.”

The only tools that I am aware of that we have available to us to work with to precisely determine where everything is on the Earth, and ourselves in relationship to it, are tools like GPS, Google Earth and Google Maps.

We wouldn’t be able to use GPS efficiently and harmoniously in our every day lives to get from point A to point B if it wasn’t based on accurate information, even if they are still pushing the globe narrative with all of this.

So do I believe we have been lied to about the shape of the Earth?

Absolutely!

I think they have lied to us about a lot more than that!

But it also stands to reason that whatever navigational system and accompanying tools we have given to use in today’s world has to be based on accurate information or none of the systems in place in our world would work.

Exactly the same locations on the Earth, but in different projections.

Not only that, the Great Pyramid of Giza, which is located at the center of the Earth’s landmass, was the Prime Meridian, until the Prime Meridian was moved in 1851 to the Royal Observatory of Greenwich in London by the British Astronomer Royal at the time, Sir George Biddell Airy.

Carl Munck deciphers a shared mathematical code in his book and YouTube video series called “The Code,” related to the Great Pyramid, in the dimensions of the architecture of sacred sites all over the Earth, one which encodes longitude & latitude of each that cross-reference other sites. 

He shows that this pyramid code is clearly sophisticated and intentional, and perfectly aligned over long-distances.

So getting back to what I was saying, leylines were included on earlier maps, and then started to disappear on Mercator’s projections, who also happened to be a globe-maker, around the same time that the work of Copernicus was published in 1543, enshrining in science, the model of the heliocentric universe and supplanting the geocentric universe of Ptolemy.

Here’s a close-up of the region on the Cantino Planisphere depicting Quaresma off the coast of Brazil, shown by the lower arrow…and the upper arrow points to the Cape Verde Islands at the center of a circle with multiple radial lines and sectors emanating from it.

This would indicate to me that the Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa near Mauretaniawere an important location on the earth’s geometric grid system.

I found a similar geometric place of importance on the Catalan Atlas centered in the city of Gijon, the largest city of Asturias in northern Spain, and port on the Bay of Biscay.

I have placed a modern map of Spain on the left, with the city of Gijon circled, because the circle with sixteen sectors depicted in the Catalan Atlas on the right appears to center on the city of Gijon.

It indicates a past importance to Gijon that is no longer recognized.

The next location on the alignment I am tracking in this post is the Trinidade and Martin Vaz Archipelago, located in the southern Atlantic Ocean, 680-miles, or 1,100-kilometers, east of the coast of Espirito Santo, Brazil, which it is part of.

This group of islands has a total area of 4-miles, or 10.4-kilometers, and a population of 32 Brazilian Navy personnel.

They were said to have been discovered by the Portuguese in 1502, and, along with Brazil, became part of the Portuguese Empire until 1822, the year Brazil became independent from Portugal.

Trindade, also known as Trinidad, is the largest island.

Many military and scientific expeditions from Europe and North America visited the islands.

For example, another British Astronomer Royal , Edmund Halley, for whom Halley’s comet was named, was said to have taken possession of the islands on behalf of the British monarchy in 1700.

At least one visitor to these islands was a fortune-seeker.

We are told that In 1893, James Harden-Hickey, a French-American newspaper editor, author and adventurer born in San Francisco in 1854, proclaimed himself James I, Prince of Trinidad in the South Atlantic Ocean, known as Trindade Island today.

He started selling Principality of Trinidad government bonds, opened an office in New York City, started making secretarial appointments and he designed postage stamps for it.

Prince James I of Trinidad’s new principality didn’t last long, however, as the British seized Trinidad as a telegraph cable relay station, and he was forced to surrender it to them.

The British occupied what they called South Trinidad in 1895 and 1896 until an agreement was reached with Brazil.

Since there is relatively little in the written historical record about this place, I am going to point out some things about the islands topography that draw my attention.

The first are the pyramidal peaks on display in this photo near the island’s shore.

The tall pointed peak in the foreground reminds me of Ship Rock in Sedona, Arizona.

The second are the shapes of the shoreline and coves on the island of Trindade…

…which are quite similar in appearance to the coastline of an island in the Caribbean – the northern 60% of which is governed as a Collectivity of France called St. Martin, and the southern 40% is governed by the Netherlands and called St. Maarten…

…as well as the that of Casco Cove on the Near Island of Attu, the furthest west of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea, on the top left; and the same double beach-head configurations can be found at Halawa Bay on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai on the top right, and there are many similar beach-heads on the island of Chichi-jima, one of the Japan’s subtropical Bonin Islands, like Miyanohama Beach on the bottom left and Hatsuneura Bay on the bottom right.

We are also told that until 1850, 85% of this island was covered by a forest of Colubrina Grandulosa trees, after which time, the indiscriminate cutting of trees, and the introduction of non-native animals, led to an extinction of the trees that were once there, and causing a heavy erosion throughout the island.

The other islands of this archipelago, the islands of Martin Vaz, consist of four islands ~ North Island; Crack Island; Needle Rock; and South Island.

Have you ever heard of these places?

I sure hadn’t before I started tracking these alignments, and these island groups I am covering in this post typically show up on more than one alignment.

The next place we come to tracking this alignment is today’s British Overseas Territory of the South Atlantic, which consists of three remote islands: Ascension Island; St. Helena; and Tristan da Cunha.

First, Ascension Island.

Besides being a British colonial outpost, Ascension Island has a U.S. military airbase, satellite and submarine tracking stations, a BBC transmitter, and a listening post run by GCHQ’s Composite Signals Organization. 

Ascension Island’s residents have been squeezed out for over 100 years.

Also, I first found the location of Ascension Island on a major alignment emanating off of the North American Star Tetrahedron, where one of the lines extending from Merida, Mexico, crosses right over Ascension Island, which is a tiny speck of land in this part of the Atlantic Ocean.

Next, the island of St. Helena.

St. Helena was where Napoleon lived in exile in our historical narrative from 1815 until his death in 1821.

Other noteworthy things about St. Helena that I have found in my research include:

A two-car inclined railway to carry cargo was said to have been constructed in 1829 between the island’s main settlement of Jamestown and the Ladder Tree Fort at the top.

We are told it was powered by a team of three-donkeys that rotated around a capstan connected to the cars by iron chain and pulleys.

Inclined railways typically worked like an obliquely-angled elevator, in which cables attached to a pulley-system raised- and-lowered the cars along the grade by way of pairing two cars at opposite-ends that act as each other’s counterweight.

As such, there’s no need for traction between the wheels and rails, and thereby allowing them to scale steep slopes, unlike traditional rail-cars.

Thing is, there used to be a lot more of them than there are now, and inclined-railways were a worldwide thing.

What we are told about this particular one on St. Helena is that in 1871, termite damage to the wooden ties of the railway led to the Royal Engineers to removing the cars, rails and associated machinery of the inclined railway, and today is a staircase known as Jacob’s Ladder.

Jacob’s Ladder leads to the historic location of the Ladder Hill Fort, and the present-day neighborhood of “Half Tree Hollow.”

Are they telling us something without telling us they are telling us here?

Like that maybe perhaps St. Helena was a former giant tree location?

When I originally did the research in 2020 tracking the alignment through the South Atlantic and South Indian Oceans, I did not have an awareness of the former giant trees of our world,.

I came into this understanding in April of 2023 in my first conversation with Chad of the “Deeper Conversation with Chad” YouTube channel about giant trees, where in the course of our conversation coming from different perspectives, we found common ground upon which our ideas merged together.

Then in October 2023, Chad and I had a deeper conversation on the subject of “Giant Trees , the Earth’s Grid & The New World Order.”

In this conversation, we discussed in depth the idea that the European
Colonizers were going after all these little islands, and many others as well,
in a post-cataclysmic world that were once the locations of giant trees.

There is one last thing I want to mention about St. Helena before I move on to the next place.

The Currency Commissioners of St. Helena produce commemorative coins.

In past research, I found this 10 ounces of silver piece that was minted on St. Helena in 2021 commemorating the East India Company.

Interesting that not only was it in honor of the East India Company, it also shows leylines on it.

The next place on the alignment is the island group of Tristan da Cunha (UK), named for Portuguese explorer Tristan da Cunha who was credited for its discovery in 1506.

He was said to have been born in 1460 and died in 1540.

I find it interesting to note that this Portuguese explorer with an island group named after him was an almost exact contemporary of the previously mentioned Portuguese explorer with an island group named after him, Fernao de Noronha, who was born in 1470 and also died in 1540.

Tristan da Cunha is home to British citizens living in the world’s most isolated settlement.

The main settlement of the main island of Tristan da Cunha is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, which is located on the only inhabited island here, with ship or boat being the only way to travel in-or-out on a six-day journey to-or-from Cape Town in South Africa.

It was named in 1867 in honor of the visit of Prince Albert, the Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria.

It has approximately 250 permanent inhabitants in the present-day.

We are told that the first undisputed landing was the Dutch East India Company ship, Heemstede, on February 7th of 1643, and that Dutch made four more stops there in the next 25-years, making the first rough charts of the islands in 1656.

Tristan da Cunha was favorably located on the world’s historic shipping lanes between the West and the East.

The islands of Tristan da Cunha were annexed by the United Kingdom in 1816, making them a dependency of the Cape Colony in South Africa, for the stated reasons of preventing the islands’ use as a base for any attempt to free Napoleon Bonaparte from his prison on St. Helena, and for preventing the United States from using the islands as a base for naval cruisers.

While possession was abandoned by the United Kingdom in 1817, a garrison of British marines stayed and formed the nucleus of a permanent population, which gradually grew, and was once a stopping point for lengthy sea voyages until the time of the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.

It eventually became a dependency of the British Crown in October of 1875.

In January of 1938, Britain declared Tristan Da Cunha a dependency of St. Helena, and at that time created the British Crown Colony of St. Helena and Dependencies.

Then shortly afterwards, Tristan da Cunha was commissioned as a stone frigate, meaning a naval establishment on land, and used as a secret signals’ intelligence station to monitor Nazi U-boats and shipping movements in the South Atlantic Ocean.

As seen as this stamp for the island, the Dunnottar Castle was an ocean liner said to have has its keel laid down in 1936 for Cape Town Service, launched in 1936, and retired in 2002, operating for 66-years.

In 1942, the Dunnottar Castle was seconded for a special assignment, and was used to sail on the top-secret mission of erecting the meteorological and wireless radio station on Tristan da Cunha used for this secret intelligence collection.

I can also make a circumstantial case that islands I have talked about thus far in this post have an octagonal geometric relationship between each other.

I found a map showing the relationship in red of an equilateral triangle between the Trindade & Martin Vaz Islands; Tristan da Cunha; and St. Helena.

I added Fernando de Noronha in blue to Trindade and Martin Vaz, and St. Helena, to form an octagon…with Ascension Island off the right side of the upper triangle.

Next on the alignment we enter into lands claimed by the French colonizers.

The French Southern and Antarctic Lands have been an overseas territory of France since 1955.

They consist of:

–the Crozet Islands, a group in the southern Indian Ocean, south of Madagascar;

–Adelie Land, the French claim on the continent of Antarctica. Adelie land;

–the Kerguelen Islands, volcanic islands in the southern Indian Ocean, southeast of Africa, approximately equidistant between Africa, Antarctica and Australia;

— St. Paul and Amsterdam Islands, a group to the north of Kerguelen.

–and the Scattered Islands, a group of dispersed islands around the coast of Madagascar, of which the principal station for these islands is on Tromelin Island.

The French Austral Lands and Seas were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on July 5th, 2019.

The French Southern and Antarctic Lands are administered by a prefect with headquarters in Saint-Pierre on Reunion Island.

I am going to spend some time looking into the life and voyages of Jules Dumont d’Urville because I believe his story is important to understanding the historical narrative we have been taught.

Early in his naval exploration career, as a result of being in the right place at the right time on a naval hydrological survey of the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, Dumont d’Urville was given the credit, and a knighthood in the Legion of Honor, for ultimately enabling the famous Venus de Milo marble statue to come from the Greek island of Milos to the Louvre in Paris instead of going to Constantinople.

After the Aegean Sea expedition, he planned an expedition, with another naval officer, of the Pacific Ocean, an area France had been forced out of as a result of the Napoleonic Wars.

They set out on their expedition to collect scientific and strategic information in August of 1822, on a ship named originally La Coquille, and sailed to the Falkland Islands; the coasts of Peru and Chile in South America; New Guinea; New Zealand and Australia.

The expedition carried out research in the fields of botany and insects, bringing back thousands of specimens to the Natural History Museum in Paris.

Then Dumont d’Urville departed on La Coquille, now called L’Astrolabe, or the Astrolabe, named for a navigational device, and sailed in 1826 for three-year voyage to New Zealand; Fiji; the Loyalty Islands; New Guinea; the Solomon Islands, Caroline Islands, and the Moluccas in eastern Indonesia.

In 1837, Dumont d’Urville set out yet again on the Astrolabe for the South Orkney Islands in the Southern Ocean; the Marquesas Islands; Tasmania; along the coast of Antarctica, at which time he claimed land on January 21st of 1840 for France, considered it his most significant achievement. He named it Adelie Land after his wife Adele.

He also named the Adelie penguin for his wife.

He then sailed onto New Zealand; the Torres Strait; Reunion Island; and St. Helena island, and returning to France later in 1840.

He was promoted to Rear Admiral upon his return, and he wrote a report of the expedition entitled “Voyage au Pole Sud et dans L’Oceanie sur les Corvettes Astrolabe et la Zelee 1837 – 1840,” which was published between 1841 and 1854 in 24 volumes.

An interesting side-note about Dumont d’Urville’s life was his death – he and his entire family were killed in the first ever rail disaster in France in May of 1842, called the Versailles Rail Accident, in which the train’s locomotive derailed, the wagons rolled, and the coal tender ended up at the front of the train and caught fire. This was said to be a painting of the incident.

Remains said to have been identified as his by a doctor who had been on-board the Astrolabe with him, and were interred here at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.

Could this be a case of “Dead men tell no tales” as it were?

Like, perhaps, explorer Meriwether Lewis, who died of gunshot wounds in 1809?

Meriwether Lewis had returned from the Lewis & Clark Expedition in 1807; was made Governor of Louisiana Territory by Thomas Jefferson; and had made arrangements to publish his Corps of Discovery Journals.

For a point of information, he was initiated into freemasonry between 1796 and 1797, from where he was born and raised in Ablemarle County, Virginia Colony, shortly after he joined the United States Army in 1795.

Being Governor of the Louisiana Territory didn’t work too well for him for a variety of reasons, and he set out for Washington, DC, to address financial issues that had arisen as a result of denied payments of drafts he had drawn against the War Department when he was governor…and he carried with him his journals for delivery to his publisher.

He decided to go overland to Washington instead of via ship by way of New Orleans, and stayed for the night at a place called Grinder’s Stand, southwest of Nashville, Tennessee.

Gunshots were heard in the early morning hours, and he was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the head and gut.

We are told that Thomas Jefferson and some historians generally accepted Lewis’ death as a suicide. His family never accepted that it was suicide, and the matter is still debated. No one was ever charged with his murder.

Just sharing some strange deaths of famous explorers that are out there, and easy to find, in the historical narrative we have been given.

Also, it is interesting to note there were similar naval expeditions by other countries around the same time of those of Dumont d’Urville for France.

The U. S. Exploring Expedition was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and the surrounding lands conducted by the United States between 1838 and 1842.

The expedition was described as of major importance to the growth of science in the United States, and that during the events of its occurrence, armed conflict between Pacific Islanders and the expedition was common, and dozens of natives were killed, as well as a few Americans.

It involved a squadron of four ships, with specialists on each including naturalists, botanists, a mineralogist, a taxidermist, and a philologist, which is someone who studies written and oral histories.

It is sometimes referred to as the “U. S. Ex. Ex.” or “Wilkes Expedition,” after the commanding officer, Navy Lt. Charles Wilkes.

The ships of the Wilkes Expedition departed from Hampton Roads in Virginia for the first stop the Madeira Islands off the coast of Africa on August 18th, 1838.

The routes of the expedition went something like this – all over the place.

The squadron of ships pretty much sailed together, at different rates of speed, from their first stop at Madeira, to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil; Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America; Valparaiso in Chile; Callao in Peru; the islands of Tahiti, and Samoa, in the South Pacific; Sydney in Australia; Antarctica, which they arrived at and “discovered” on January 16th of 1840, just mere days before the completely different expedition (?) of Dumont d’Urville’s claimed land on Antarctica on January 21st of 1840; and then, by way of Fiji, to the Sandwich Islands (otherwise known as the Hawaiian Islands), before returning to the United States. The ships did break-off into pairs on occasion to explore different places in the same general location.

Then there were the voyages of the HMS Beagle, originally a Cherokee class 10-gun boat of the British Royal Navy, said to have set off from the Royal Dockland of Woolwich at the River Thames on May 11th of 1820.

The HMS Beagle’s first voyage was between 1826 and 1830, accompanying the larger ship, HMS Adventure, on a hydrologic survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, under the overall command of the Australian Navy Captain, Phillip Parker King.

The second voyage of the HMS Beagle, between 1831 and 1832, was joined by naturalist Charles Darwin, on a second trip to South America, and then around the world.

Charles Darwin kept a diary of his experiences, and rewrote this as a book titled “Journal and Remarks,” becoming published in 1839 as “The Voyage of the Beagle.”

The third voyage of the HMS Beagle took place between 1837 and 1843, and was a third surveying voyage to Australia, stopping on the way at Tenerife in the Canary Islands; Salvador on the coast of Brazil in Bahia State; and Cape Town in South Africa. I have found all three of these places on planetary grid alignments.

In Australia, the crew surveyed Western Australia, starting in what is now Perth, to the Fitzroy River; then both shores of the Bass Strait in Australia’s southeast corner; then north to the shores of the Arafura Sea, across from Timor. Again, all of these places figure prominently on grid alignments.

In 1845, the HMS Beagle was refitted as a Coast Guard watch vessel in Essex, in the navigable waters beyond the Thames Estuary, moored in the middle of the River Roach, until oyster companies and traders petitioned to have it removed in 1851, citing the vessel was obstructing the river and its oyster beds.

The Navy List shows that on May 25th of 1851, the Beagle was renamed “Southend ‘W.V. No. 7′” at Paglesham, and sold in 1870 to be broken-up.

Just for point of reference, the Crystal Palace Exhibition took place in London’s Hyde Park between May 1st of 1851 to October 15th of 1851.

I believe the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 was the official kick-off to the reset timeline of the New World Order.

I believe the history of Earth has been replaced with the history of those that took over and claimed the legacy of the original builders of civilization, and I believe all of these voyages of exploration were part of how they did it.

The earth, and all that was in it, was surveyed after the mud flood event, and before the official start of the new reset timeline in 1851, from which our new history was based on.

Now, on to the Kerguelen Islands, also known as the Desolation Islands, and administered as part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands as mentioned previously.

The Kerguelen Islands themselves are considered an exposed part of the Kerguelen Plateau, which is considered a large igneous province, or an extremely large accumulation of igneous rocks, mostly submerged by the southern Indian Ocean.

The main island, known as Grande Terre, is 2,577 square-miles, or 6,675 kilometers-squared.

The islands were officially discovered by the French navigator Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Tremarec on February 12th of 1772.

Then, apparently the very next day, a member of the expedition named Charles de Boisguehenneuc, landed on the island, and claimed it for the French Crown.

The island was visited regularly by whalers and sealers after its discovery, and between the 18th- and 20th-century, the regions whales and seals were hunted to the point of near extinction.

The islands were not completely surveyed until 1840 during the Ross Expedition, a voyage of scientific exploration of the Antarctic between 1839 and 1843.

This is said to be an engraving from the Ross Expedition of Christmas Harbor at Kerguelen Island, from an elevation 600-feet, or 183-meters.

The main base, or so-called capital of the Kerguelen Islands, is at Port-aux-Francais, on the eastern shore of Grande Terre.

This is the best known feature of the Kerguelen Islands, known as the Arch of Kerguelen at Port Christmas, where there was formerly a geomagnetic station.

Apparently the Arch of Kerguelen actually looked like an arch at one time.

Also, what looks to be a version of the same land feature in the Kerguelen islands, called St. Anne’s Finger on the Gallieni Peninsula in the Baie Larose, on the top left, is found in the Revillagigedo Islands, in the Pacific Ocean near the west coast of Mexico, and part of its Colima Province, on the top right; and on the bottom left, a feature found in the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador on the northwestern side of South America; and on the bottom right, one is also found near Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea.

Mount Ross is the highest point of Kerguelen Island, at 6,069-feet, or 1,850- meters, also on the Gallieni Peninsula.

Other land features of Kerguelen Island include Mounts Simoun and Diane.

George Biddell Airy, whom we saw earlier as the Astronomer Royal who moved the Earth’s Prime Meridian from the Great Pyramid of Giza to the Royal Observatory of Greenwich in London, organized and equipped five expeditions to different parts of the world, of which three were sent to the Kerguelen Islands, to observe the 1874 Transit of Venus.

Between 1874 and 1875, altogether British, German, and United States expeditions visited Kerguelen to observe the Transit of Venus.

The 1874 Transit of Venus took place on December 9th of that year, and was the first of the pair of Venus Transits which took place in the 19th-century, the second one being in 1882.

A transit of Venus takes place across the sun when the planet Venus passes directly between the sun and a superior planet, becoming visible against the solar disk.

Interestingly, this is a diagram of the orbit of Venus as seen from Earth.

There is a geomagnetic station at Cap Ratmanoff in the present-day, the easternmost point of the Kerguelen Islands.

So, even today, the principal activities on the islands focus on scientific research, mostly earth sciences and biology, as well as a French satellite- and rocket station near Port-aux-Francais, like to what we saw back on Ascension Island with American and British facilities doing the same thing in the Atlantic Ocean…

…and there is a small fleet of fishing vessels that are owned out of Reunion Island and licensed to fish in this exclusive economic zone based here.

Next on the alignment, we come to Ile St-Paul, or St. Paul Island, another part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands mentioned previously.

We are told in 1780, the thin stretch of rock that used to close off the crater of the active volcano it sits on top of collapsed, admitting water through a 330-foot, or 100-meter, channel. The entrance is shallow, allowing only small ships and boats to enter.

For comparison in appearance, on the left is the entrance to what is called the “Bassin du Cratere” or “Lac Cratere,” or in English “Crater Lake” on Ile Saint-Paul in the South Indian Ocean, compared with what is found on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

While the Portuguese were first credited with discovering the island in 1559, and the Dutch with sighting it in 1618, the French laid claim to it in 1842, apparently when a group of fisherman from Reunion Island that were interested in setting-up a fishery on Saint-Paul, pressed the Governor of Reunion to take possession of Saint-Paul, as well as Amsterdam Island, which we will be coming to next on the alignment.

Apparently, he did so, by official decree, on June 8th of 1843.

All fishery activities were abandoned in 1853, however, when the French government renounced its possession of the two islands.

The HMS Megaera, a British troop transport, was wrecked on the Ile Saint-Paul in 1871, and it took approximately 3-months to rescue all 400 persons that were on board.

This is said to be a print of the Ile Saint-Paul from that time period in 1871.

Then, in 1892, the crew of the French ship Bourdonnais again took possession for the French government of Saint-Paul and Amsterdam Islands.

These days, the main human activity on Ile Saint-Paul is a scientific research cabin used for scientific or ecological short campaigns only, and no permanent human population.

Other activity involves its importance as a seabird breeding site.

The next place we come to on the alignment I am tracking is the Ile Amsterdam, or Amsterdam Island, which was claimed by France in 1892.

Amsterdam Island is roughly equidistant from the land masses of Madagascar, Australia, and Antarctica.

While a Spanish explorer by the name of Juan Sebastian de Elcano was said to have sighted the island in 1522, when he was completing the first circumnavigation of the world after Magellan’s death in the Phillippines in 1522…

…Amsterdam Island was said to have gotten its name over one-hundred years later…

…in 1633, from a Dutch sea captain, Anthony van Diemen who named it after his ship, Nieuw Amsterdam, which was named after the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam (which later became New York City).

Amsterdam Island was a stop for the Macartney Mission in 1793, the first British diplomatic mission to China.

The goals of the Macartney Mission were to: 1) Open new ports for British trade in China; 2) the establishment of a permanent embassy in what was then called Peking, now Beijing; 3) the cession of a small island off the coast of China for Britain’s use; and 4) the relaxation of trade restrictions on British merchants in Canton in southern China.

While it was said to have failed to achieve its initial objectives, the Macartney Mission was noted for having brought back extensive cultural, political, and geographical observations that its participants recorded.

After having been claimed for France in 1892, the islands were part of the French Colony of Madagascar from 1924 until August 6th of 1955, when the French Southern and Antarctic Lands were formed.

The only settlement on Amsterdam Island is a seasonal research station, which studies biology, meteorology, and geomagnetics. 

Phylica Arbora trees grow on Amsterdam Island.

It was called the “Great Forest,” covering the lowlands of the island, until most of the trees were cleared by fires set by sealers around 1825.

Here is a photograph of Lee Waves taken on Amsterdam Island.  Lee Waves are atmospheric stationary waves, and are a form of internal gravity waves.  

It definitely seems as though the location of the islands I have been tracking in the Atlantic and South Indian Oceans are in a favorable location with regards to: 1) Trade Winds, or the permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the earth’s equatorial region between 30-degrees north and 30-degrees south, and which allowed trade routes to become established across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, making various places on earth easy or difficult to access…

…and 2) on the Earth’s ocean currents, which are like giant conveyor belts flowing through the ocean and moving huge amounts of water all of the time, and which look very similar to the depiction of the direction of the trade winds.

Like George Biddell Airy, another previously seen Astronomer Royal in this video, Edmond Halley, who was said have taken possession of the Trindade and Martin Vaz Islands on behalf of the British monarchy in 1700, makes an appearance in history with regards to the subject of the Trade Winds as well. 

In addition to being Astronomer Royal,  Edmond Halley was also a geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist and physicist.

This is a map he made in 1686 of the earth’s trade winds.

In 1686, he made this map of the Earth’s trade winds.

Note the place-names of his time depicted on this map, like:

The Ethiopick Ocean on the left bottom of the map;

Ethiopia  prominently displayed in the center of the African continent;

Barbaria on the coast of North Africa;

Persia, the historic name of Iran on the top right;

And Ceylon, on the right middle, the historic name of what is called Sri Lanka today.

Pertaining to this place-name information, I want to mention that I have long-suspected that there was a much, much greater significance to Ethiopia and what it actually represented in our True History than what we have been told in our official narrative. 

I am going to end this post here, and in the next post, I will be picking up this alignment in Matara, Sri Lanka, which will be the final post of this particular series based on my findings in tracking a long-distance alignment back in 2020, called “The Advanced Ancient Civilization in Sri Lanka, India, and Pakistan.”

I am going to be taking a close look in this video at North Africa, starting with the city of Sousse on the Tunisian coast where a long-distance alignment enters the African continent from Valletta in Malta in the Mediterranean Sea, and I look at places on and near where the alignment makes its way across the Sahara Desert in North Africa to Mauretania on the western coast of Africa, and follow it to where the alignment crosses the Cape Verde Islands in the Central Atlantic Ocean.

Most of the research in this post came from a 23-part series called “Sacred Geometry, Ley Lines & Places in Alignment” that I did back in 2020 tracking a long-distance alignment of cities and places that started in San Francisco.

So far from the original 2020 series, I have posted ” The Ancient Advanced Civilization in Southeast Asia – From Manila in the Philippines to Dhaka in Bangladesh;” “The Ancient Advanced Civilization in Armenia, Anatolia & the Aegean Sea;” and “The Ancient Advanced Civilization in the Mediterranean Sea from the Strait of Messina to Malta.”

From the process of tracking cities and places in several different alignments over the years, I have collected a variety of puzzle pieces about different places.

These pieces of the puzzle bring a bigger picture into focus that is not immediately apparent on the surface from this type of geographically-focused research.

In the last post, I took a tour of the amazing city of Valletta, and capital of the island Republic of Malta. I looked around what is found in the Marsamxett Harbor; around the Grand Harbor; and within the city walls of Valletta.

I am picking up the alignment in Sousse, the capital of Tunisia’s Sousse Governorate, one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia, and located 87-miles, or 140-kilometers, south of the nation’s capital of Tunis.

Sousse is considered one of the most beautiful cities in Tunisia, and is located on the Gulf of Hammamet.

Sousse is a transportation hub.

It is a port city…

…where there are two lighthouses at opposite ends of the harbor entrance…

…just like at the harbor in Valletta, Malta…

…and at the Port of Dover, England, in the English Channel.

Sousse is linked by the widest road in the country, the A-1 Motorway, a 153-mile, or 247-kilometer, highway that connects Tunis with Sfax, another port city in southern Tunisia, and conceived of as part of an international project called the Trans-Maghreb Highway.

The Maghreb is another name for northwest Africa, a region which we are told was referred to in English and European sources, in the 16th- through 19th-centuries, as the Barbary Coast.

What we are also told about the Maghreb is that during the era of al-Andalus in Moorish Spain between 711 AD and 1492 AD, the Maghreb’s inhabitants, Muslim Berbers or Maghrebi, were known by the European’s as “Moors”…and that’s about as much as they will give up to us directly about this particular subject.

Sousse is also connected by railway to Tunis.

What we are told is that the construction of the railway in Tunisia first began around 1872 under the ruler at the time, Bey Muhammad III as-Sadiq , to serve the capital city of Tunis, and then extended to Algeria; to Sousse; and to places like Sfax on the coast which phosphate port, and Haidra near the border with Algeria, where there was lead, phosphate and ore mining.

In taking a look at the history of Tunisia, I found that at the beginning of the 1800s, Tunisia was described as a quasi-autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire.

At this time in its history, we are told that its trade increased dramatically with Europe in the 1800s, with the arrival of western merchants wanting to establish business in the country.

Then, the Bey of Tunis from 1855 to 1859, Muhammad, was forced by the British and French to sign the 1857 Fundamental Pact, which increased freedoms for non-Tunisians.

Here’s another clue we are talking about Moors.

Bey is one of the five noble titles of the Moors, the other four being – Dey, El, Al, and Ali.

Also in the Ottoman Empire, Bey was the title of the governor of a province.

Then, we are told, in 1861, Tunisia enacted the first constitution in what was called the Arab world, but a move toward a modernizing republic was said to have been hampered by a poor economy and political unrest.

We are starting to see the use of the word “Arab” replacing that of “Moor.”

Contained within the 1861 Constitution of Tunisia, we find that it was also the first state to establish Islam as its religion.

The world would be in a much better place if we were talking about Moorish Islam, which is about reconnecting with our higher selves and raising our level of consciousness into Higher Consciousness.

I – Self- Law – Am – Master.

I think this marked the beginning of turning the original Islam into the mechanism for creating a new form of fundamentalist Islam, where it was conceptually altered in order to lead us to what we see now as radical Islam, and its destructive role in today’s world.

Regardless of the new Constitution, when the Tunisian government couldn’t manage the loans made by foreigners to the government, it declared bankruptcy in 1869.

Then Britain and France cooperated between 1871 and 1878 to prevent Italy from acquiring Tunisia as a colony having investment, and subsequently Britain supported the French interest in Tunisia in exchange for dominion over Cyprus.

Using the pretext of a Tunisian invasion into Algeria, the French invaded Tunisia in 1881 with an army of 36,000, which quickly advanced to Tunis, entering by way of places like Sousse on the coast…

…and subsequently occupying Tunis.

Then, the French forced the new Bey, Muhammad III as-Sadiq, to make terms in the form of the 1881 Treaty of Bardo, which gave France control of Tunisian governance and making it a de facto French Protectorate.

The French progressively assumed more of the important administrative positions, and by 1884 they supervised all Tunisian government bureaus dealing with finance, post, education, telegraph, public works, and agriculture.

French settlements were encouraged, with the number of French settlers said to have grown from 34,000 in 1906, to 144,000 in 1945, and the French administration weakened the local tribes in rural areas.

This was said to depict an urban map of Tunis between 1890 and 1914.

Then, on March 20th, 1956, Tunisia achieved its independence from France with the establishment of a Constitutional Monarchy…

…with the last Bey of Tunis, Muhammed VIII al-Amin Bey, as the King of Tunisia.

This State of Affairs didn’t last long at all, as the Prime Minister, Habib Bourguiba, abolished the monarchy the following year, in 1957, and proclaimed the Republic of Tunisia the same year, and served as its President for the next thirty-one years.

At the same time the constitutional monarchy of Tunisia was abolished, the Beylik of Tunis was terminated as well, which had once been a largely autonomous Beylik of the Ottoman Empire.

We are told the Ottoman Empire was founded at the end of the 13th-century in northwestern Anatolia and existed as a vast empire and center of interactions between east and west until the end of World War I, when it was defeated as an ally of Germany and occupied by Allied forces.

At this time, the Ottoman Empire was partitioned and lost its Middle East holdings, which were divided between the Allied Forces.

Among other things, it is interesting to note that the Carthaginian Empire was centered in Tunisia…

…and the powerful ancient city of Carthage was located in the vicinity of Tunis.

This reconstruction of how Carthage was said to have looked is typical of depictions of it, and its protected harbor called a cothon, which were said to have been generally found in the Phoenician world and which looks remarkably like the former roundhouses of railroad lines everywhere which have been totally removed from the modern world and no longer exist.

Only remnants of roundhouses exist today, like Roundhouse Park in Toronto, located right next to, of all places interestingly enough, the CN Tower.

Carthage was said to have been founded by Phoenician settlers from Tyre and Sidon in the modern-day country of Lebanon, and destroyed by Roman forces in 146 BC at the end of the Third Punic War.

I find it very interesting that there is a narrow strip of the National Forest of Tunisia between A1 Motorway and the coast of Hammamet Bay, between Sousse and the resort town of Hammamet to the North, given the overall desertified nature of the place.

We will see more on the desertification of the region as we move into northern Africa’s Sahara Desert.

There are many olive tree groves south of where the strip of National Forest is located, adjacent to the Gulf of Hammamet Bay, in the vicinity of el Kantaoui Port, north of Sousse Proper.

Olives are Tunisia’s most important natural resource, and Sousse is the center of the production and sale of olive oil in Tunisia.

Interestingly, not too long ago in tracking an alignment, I encountered a similar strip of trees of Africa on the northeast coast of Somalia in Alula, the capital of the Bari Region of Puntland on Cape Guardafui.

Alula is situated next a shallow lagoon lined by mangroves, a type of tree that grows in brackish water.

Here is a picture of mangroves covering the coast of this area by Alula on Google Earth.

Mangrove swamps are coastal wetlands characterized by these salt loving trees and shrubs that are typically found in estuaries, where salt water meets freshwater.

Estuaries have water that is salty, dirty & unpleasant, and there are one or more rivers flowing into it, and a connection to the open sea.

I have been speculating for awhile now from my research that the Earth’s estuaries are actually ruined and sunken land that once had the infrastructure of civilization in it.

This region even today produces 1.5-million kilograms, or over 3.3-million pounds, per year of different types of frankincense, an aromatic resin used in incense, perfumes, and essential oils, obtained from Boswellia trees.

Medicinal properties of frankincense include anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor properties.

Cape Guardafui where Alula is located was at one time considered the center of the world’s spice trade, and known as “Aromata,” or the “Cape of Spice,” due to the abundance of spices it produced, including frankincense, cinnamon, and indian spices.

Tunisia, and the coast of North Africa, is the southern boundary of the Mediterranean Sea.

If you break-down the meaning of Mediterranean Sea, you come up with “Middle Earth” Sea.

Interestingly, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, the northern border of which is on the Mediterranean Sea, has been calculated to be the center of the land mass of the Earth.

Carl Munck in “The Code,” deciphers a shared mathematical code, related to the pyramids of Giza, in the dimensions of the architecture of sacred sites all over the planet, one which encodes longitude & latitude of each that cross-reference other sites. 

He shows that this pyramid code is clearly sophisticated and intentional, and perfectly aligned geometrically over long-distances.

The Great Pyramid was the prime meridian of the Earth until the prime meridian was moved to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England…in 1851.

Next, it is interesting to note that approximately 200-miles, or 323-kilometers, almost due south of Sousse is the town of Tataouine, in the governate of Tataouine.

The word the town and region is named for was said to have meant “springs.”

The region is known for its underground dwellings of the Berber inhabitants.

Tataouine in Tunisia was the inspiration for the desert planet of “Tatooine” in “Star Wars,” and was a filming location for “Tattooine” in the movie.

Out of curiousity, since there seems to be quite a bit of disclosure happening in Hollywood movies, I looked up how Tattooine in “Star Wars” became a desert planet.

So as related in the history of “Star Wars,” Once Upon a Time, Tattooine was a thriving world with twin suns, where its advanced people lived peacefully in gleaming cities alongside blue seas, but it was invaded by the Rakatan Infinite Empire, who enslaved the inhabitants.

Though Tatooine’s inhabitants were able eventually drive that Rakata off their world after a virulent plague weakened the invaders, the Rakata retaliated with an orbital bombardment that glassed the surface of the planet and boiled off its oceans, with the glass becoming sand in time.

Hmmm…

Let’s see what else we find in this part of the world!

Next on the alignment in Tunisia from Sousse, we come to Kairouan, the capital of the Kairouan Governate and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Great Mosque of Kairouan, also known as the Holy Mosque of Uqba, is considered to be one of the most impressive and largest Islamic monuments in North Africa.

It is one of the oldest places of worship in the Islamic world, said to have been established in 670 AD, and the model for all later mosques in the Maghreb.

The architectural style of the Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia is like that of the Alhambra in Spain, the only location in our historical narrative where a significant Moorish history is openly acknowledged.

Both places share features like courtyards with multiple archways and double-columns.

We are told during the Aghlabid Dynasty between 800 AD and 909 AD, the ruler of Ifriquiya in today’s North Africa, established a University in Kairouan as part of the Great Mosque complex, and that it became a center of education in both Islamic thought and in the secular sciences.

It is said to be in the Guiness World Book of Records as the oldest, currently functional, university in the world.

The Aghlabids were said to have built palaces, fortifications, and fine waterworks, of which only the pools remain.

For example, these are called the Aghlabid Basins, said to have been built in the 9th-century as water storage for the Aghlabid Palace, which was on the site of a present-day cemetery in Kairouan.

Jebel Chambi is the next place on the alignment, the highest mountain in the country, standing above the city of Kasserine in western central Tunisia.

With new eyes as of the last year, I now consider the possibility that this was the location of a giant tree.

The summit is covered by a pine forest and is part of Chambi National Park.

Both Kairouan and Kasserine were located on the railway line in this direction from Sousse.

In “On the Trail of Giants in Appalachia and Beyond – Theme 3 The Energy Grid,” I documented findings supporting the idea that suspected giant tree locations, were serving as things like transportation hubs on the Earth’s Energy Grid System for past and present railroad lines, most of which have been replaced by highway routes or recreational trails in today’s world.

Interestingly, the Battle of Kasserine Pass took place during the Tunisia Campaign of World War II.

It was the first major engagement between American and Axis forces in Africa.

With the Axis German and Italian Forces led by Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, it was an early defeat for Allied forces.

One of the things that happened during the Battle of Kasserine pass was the destruction of a railroad bridge by American troops at Sbeitla.

Interesting that there are so many military engagements historically that have taken place along these alignments I have been tracking – the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II, among other kinds of wars.

It makes me wonder what they were really all about…like maybe damage to, and in many cases, the complete destruction of, the ancient advanced civilization and the earth’s energy grid system.

The even more giant-tree stump-looking Jugurtha Tableland is in Tunisia.

The location of the Jugurtha Tableland is northwest of Kasserine, near Haidra, where as previously mentioned, we are told the railroad was brought in there for lead, phosphate and ore mining, activities also associated with the suspected locations of giant trees.

Haidra was also the location of what was said to be one of the earliest Roman settlements in North Africa.

The next place we come to on the alignment is El Oued, the capital of Algeria’s El Oued Province in the Sahara Desert in northeast Algeria.

The oasis town of El Oued is watered by an underground river, which allows for date palm cultivation.

It is also known as the “City of a Thousand Domes” since most roofs are domed.

In El Oued Province itself, we find the Chott Melrhir, an endorheic salt lake (a limited drainage basin with no outflow)…

…and the westernmost of a series of depressions, from the Gulf of Gabes in the Mediterranean Sea into the Sahara.

The Grand Erg Oriental, or Great Eastern Sand Sea, is in the southern part of the province, is a field of sand dunes.

Can’t help but wonder if there is enduring infrastructure underneath all that sand!

The Grand Erg Oriental used to be associated with the Wadi Igharghar, described as a dry and mostly buried river with a sizeable number of tributaries (a canal-system perhaps?) that flowed north into the Erg from the Ahaggar Mountains to the south of it.

At one time, not only did the Sahara Desert have a fertile, savannah-type ecosystem, supporting a wide-and-varied wildlife population, like these life-sized giraffes carved in rock in the Sahara…

…the region now called the Sahara desert had great forests, including but not limited to, oak, elm, alder, juniper, and pine.

As you can see in this picture, we are taught the desertification of this region started happening a long time ago.

Maybe. Maybe not.

There is so much that we have not been told about!

The silence about the history of this region of the world in the present-day is deafening.

This is a good place to bring up desertification of certain places around the world, like the Sahara Desert.

I mean, is all of the desertification around the world the result of natural processes over time? Or did something happen to cause it all of a sudden that we haven’t been told about?

Next on the alignment from El Oued, we come to the city of Touggourt, the capital of Algeria’s Touggourt Province, and a former Sultanate.

The Sultanate was abolished by French colonial authorities in Algeria in 1854, and after about a 50-year period of time, it became an autonomous administrative district in what was called the Southern Territories of Algeria.

Touggourt is situated next to an extensive system of oases which supports palm plantations and other agriculture in a 31-mile, or 50-kilometer, north to south area. Here is a close-up of place with some kind of agriculture…and where you can see what appears to be what used to be infrastructure in the surrounding desert.

The next place on the alignment is Ghardaia, the capital of Algeria’s Ghardaia Province.

It lies along the west bank of the Wadi Mzab, described as a dry riverbed.

I couldn’t find a picture of the mostly underground Wadi Igharghar back in the Grand Erg Oriental, but it is not hard to find pictures of the Wadi Mzab…showing masonry banks.

The Wadi M’zab Valley in Ghardaia Province has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982.

The cities of the Wadi M’zab Valley are seven in number, with five built close together, and two lie further out.

Ghardaia is upstream of the other four cities that form what is called the “pentapole,” and is the commercial capital of the Mzab…

…with its dominating mosque…

…then next downstream comes Melika…

…with its unique-looking Sheikh Sidi Aissa Cemetery…

…then we come to Beni Isguen…

…the most traditional city of the Mzab Valley, and in which any visitor must be accompanied by an authorized guide or member of the community…

…next we come to Bounoura…

…meaning “the Luminous…”

…and El Atteuf…

…which means “The Turn…”

…and all five are close together on the S-shaped river bends of the Wadi Mzab.

The other two cities of that constitute the seven cities are:

Berriane, located on National Road 1, one of the country’s important highways…

…and El Guerrara, on the passageway for caravans crossing the Sahara, from east-to-west, and north-to-south…

…and are located further out from the other five.

Taking a look at the Pleiades, I think the seven cities of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Wadi M’zab Valley could possibly be a terrestrial star map of the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters.

Before I leave Algeria, and head into Mauretania, there is one more place I would like to bring to your attention.

You can easily find this information if you look for it, as it is not hidden from us like so much else, but most people don’t know about it.

While Reggane is not directly on the alignment I am tracking, it is relatively close to it.

Reggane is the capital of Algeria ‘s Adrar Province.

France began its nuclear testing program in Reggane in 1960 – 1961, before Algeria’s independence.

They conducted four atmospheric nuclear tests, which contaminated the Sahara Desert with plutonium, negatively impacting those who live here to this day – not only Reggane, but far beyond.

Between 1960 and 1966, a total of 17 nuclear tests were conducted in the Reggane District of Algeria.

It was called Africa’s Hiroshima.

The next place I am going to highlight on the alignment is the Eye of the Sahara, which is near Ouadane in central Mauretania.

It is visible from space, and has been used by NASA astronauts as a visual landmark.

The Blue Eye of the Sahara, also known as the Richat Structure, is described as a geological formation in the Sahara Desert that resembles an enormous bulls-eye.

It is highly symmetrical, and measures 25-miles, or 40-kilometers in diameter.

Three nested rings dip outwards from the center of the structure, and are all equidistant from the center.

Some have speculated that this configuration matches that of Atlantis as described by Plato.

If it is a man-made structure, and not natural as many want us to believe, why does it look melted?

It resembles Lop Nur, an ancient salt lake in the Takla Maklan Desert in the Southeastern portion of the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang in China…

…and the location where the Chinese Nuclear Weapons Test Base had four nuclear testing zones, starting in 1959 – with H-Bomb detonation in 1967 – until 1996, with 45 nuclear tests conducted.

Next, we come to Nouakchott, the capital and largest city of Mauretania.

It is one of the largest cities of the Sahel, the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the North, and the Sudanian Savannah to the South.

We are told that Nouakchott was a large fortified fishing village in pre-colonial times and under French rule.

Now…why would a fishing village be fortified?

I am unable to find any historic photos of Nouakchott on the internet to see what it might have looked like even around the early 1900s.

I did find this illustration of the skyline of Nouakchott…

…and this Mauritanian bank note depicting some of the country’s infrastructure.

Then I look at the absolutely devastated-looking desert landscape of the whole country from Google Earth, and it makes me wonder about what we are really looking at here.

So I delved into the history of Mauretania to see what I could find out about what we are told in the historical record we have been given.

We are told that Mauretania was the Latin name for a region in the ancient Maghreb.

It stretched from central present-day Algeria, westward to the Atlantic, covering northern Morocco, and southward to the Atlas Mountains, and included the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, which are autonomous cities of Spain in North Africa.

Ceuta lies on Strait of Gibraltar, the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean…

…and is the location of Jebel Musa, or Mount Moses, considered by some to be the southern Pillar of Hercules…

…and the Rock of Gibraltar across the Strait of Gibraltar considered to be the northern Pillar of Hercules.

And could they have possibly been former giant trees as well?

Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory in southern Spain.

Interesting that both of these places are governed by countries outside of the one of they are physically located in.

The largely intact Royal Walls of Ceuta are described as a line of fortifications said to have been built by the Portuguese in the 1540s.

Melilla, the other autonomous city of Spain in North Africa along with Ceuta, said to mean the “White One”…

…has the fortress walls of Old Melilla, said to have been built in the 16th- and 17th-centuries, after the Spanish conquest of the region in 1496.

Nevertheless, we are told that the native inhabitants of Mauretania were seminomadic pastoralists of Berber ancestry, and known to the Romans as Mauri…or…Moors.

Berbers are called an ethnic group of several nations, mostly indigenous to Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, northern Mali, northern Niger, and a small part of western Egypt.

Both Ceuta and Melilla are officially claimed by Morocco.

The term Barbary Coast, and Barbaria was said to have been used by Europeans from the 16th-century to the early 19th-century to refer to the regions of North Africa inhabited by the Berber people.

We are taught that the kings of Mauretania became Roman vassals in 27 BC, and that in 44 AD, Mauretania was annexed to Rome as two different provinces – Mauretania Tingitana, or present-day northern Morocco, and Mauretania Caesariensis, or present-day northern Algeria.

Then, during the Crisis of the Third Century, a period of time when the Roman Empire almost collapsed between 235 and 284 AD, we are told, because of invasions and overall instability within the empire…

…that parts of Mauretania were reconquered by Berber tribes, and Romano-Moorish Kingdoms were established during the 6th- and 7th-centuries.

Fast forward through time to the Barbary Wars, which were a series of conflicts culminating in two main wars fought between the United States, Sweden, and the Barbary States of the Ottoman Empire in the late 18th- and early 19th-century.

We are told that Barbary pirates demanded tribute from American vessels in the Mediterranean Sea, and in 1801, President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay, and sent a U. S. Naval fleet to the Mediterranean in May of that year, and which lasted until 1805.

The naval fleet commenced bombarding various fortified “pirate” cities in present-day Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria, over the next three years until concessions of fair passage were extracted from their rulers, which were most likely the Deys of Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers, in the First Barbary War.

The second Barbary War took place in 1815 between the United States and the Barbary States, and we are told, brought to an end the American practice of paying tribute to the “pirate” states and marked the beginning of the end of piracy in that region.

I am including what information is available about the Barbary Wars because it is noteworthy.

I would love to know what was really going on here with regards to the Barbary Moors, because if information is difficult to find if it even exists.

Mauretania was administered as a French colony during the first-half of the twentieth-century, achieving independence in 1960, and Nouakchott becoming its capital in 1958, at which time it was described as being a mid-size village of little importance.

By the way, an interesting side-note is the RMS Mauretania, a passenger ocean liner launched on September 20th of 1906, was said to have been named for the ancient Roman Province of Mauretania, and not the modern country…

…and was the sister ship to the RMS Lusitania, named for the Roman province directly to the north of Mauretania, across the Strait of Gibraltar, which is famous in history for having been sunk by a German u-boat in 1915 off the coast of Ireland.

The iron ore trains of Mauretania are some of the longest, if not the longest, in world, at 1.6-miles, or 2.5-kilometers, long…

…hauling iron ore, people and goods, 405-miles, or 652-kilometers between the mining town of Zouerat on the west side of Kediet ej Jill, the highest peak in Mauretania, through the Sahara Desert, to the port city of Nouadhibou on Mauretania’s coast.

Atar is situated on the upper corner of the eyelid of the Eye of the Sahara, and is 213-miles, or 343-kilometers, south of Zouerat and Kediet ej Jill, and Chinguetti is located on the lower lid of the Eye, to the southest of Atar.

The Adrar Plateau Mountains stretch east to west between Atar and Chinguetti.

This is a view on the top left in the Amogjar Pass between Atar and Chinguetti in Mauretania, compared with similar-looking features at Thule, Greenland on the top right; Cutimbo in Peru on the bottom left; and in the Village of Oak Creek, in Sedona, Arizona on the bottom right.

Again, have to wonder if we are looking at former giant tree locations at all these places being mentioned here.

Chinguetti is called the Holy City of the Sahara, and venerated as one of the most holy cities of Islam…

…and has some of the world’s oldest surviving copies of Korans and other documents.

Then there’s Ouadane, situated pretty darn close to the eyeball of the Eye of the Sahara, what was once one of Africa’s key trading posts, and a UNESCO World Heritage site today.

It is largely in ruins, though there is a settlement of people still living there outside the gates.

I noticed the Banc d’Arguin National Park on the coast, another UNESCO World Heritage Site located north of Nouakchott, and went there to take a look, as I consistently find that for as much of the ancient civilization as is destroyed, neglected, or incorporated in unprotected places, much is preserved intact in parks.

The island of Arguin in the Bay of Arguin was first thing I noticed when I looked at Google Earth.

The interesting thing about Arguin, part of the National Park, is that while there is not much going on there now…

…at one time there was a lot going on there, including a star fort, said to have been built by the Dutch, which doesn’t appear to exist any more.

We are told that starting in 1443, it became a part of the Portuguese Empire; and, at different times over the centuries, it was part of the Dutch Empire; part of the territories and provinces of Prussia; and part of the French overseas empire.

The shallows of the Banc d’Arguin National Park are said to be remnants of a vast river delta from a time when waters flowed from what is now the Sahara Desert…

…and the Banc d’Arguin is a major breeding site for migratory birds, and its surrounding waters are some of the richest fishing waters in western Africa, serving as nesting grounds for the region.

From Nouakchott, the next place we come to on the alignment are the Cape Verde Islands.

The island Republic of Cape Verde is 350-miles, or 570-kilometers, off the coast of western Africa, and consists of 10 islands, divided into two groups.

One group is called the Barlavento, or Windward, islands of:

Sando Antao; Sao Vicente; Santa Luzia; Sao Nicolau; Sal; and Boavista.

The other group is called the Sotavento, or Leeward, islands of:

Santiago; Maio; Fogo; and Brava.

They are part of what is called “Macaronesia,” a collection of four archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of Africa and Europe, also including the Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Azores.

Santiago is the country’s largest island, and where its capital, Praia, is located.

We are told the islands were uninhabited before the arrival of Portuguese and Genoese navigators in 1456, with Portuguese settlers arriving in 1462 and founding a settlement called Ribeira Grande, now called Cidade Velha, the historic center of which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

These are what appear to be the very old stone ruins of what is called Se Catedral in Cidade Velha.

There is also an intact star fort in Cidade Velha, called the Fort Real de Sao Filipe, said to have been built by the Portuguese between 1587 and 1593, and part of a system of defense for the city, which included six smaller forts on the coast and a wall along the port that apparently no longer exists.

Moving over to look at Praia, the capital city, I see the familiar shape of the harbor there, compared for example, to the harbor back in Sousse, Tunisia, on the other side of Africa.

The red dots mark where lighthouses are located, and I typically find pairs of lighthouses at harbor entrances around the world…

…like those back at Sousse.

The Farol de Dona Maria Pia is the lighthouse at the southernmost point of the island of Santiago at the entrance of Praia Harbor.

Based on what I have found at other locations with a similar harbor configuration, I would expect to find a lighthouse at the head of the opposite jetty.

But there isn’t one.

It looks like something is standing there, but not a lighthouse, and I could find no record of one being there.

Lastly, it is interesting to note that the Cape Verde Islands are specifically mentioned in the Inter Cetera Bull, issued by Pope Alexander VI on May 4th of 1493.

This papal bull essentially authorized the land grab of the lands of the Moorish civilization in the Americas, and became a major document in the development of subsequent legal doctrines regarding claims of empire in the “New World.” 

The bull assigned to Castile “the exclusive right to acquire territory, to trade in, or even approach the lands laying west of the meridian situated one hundred leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde Islands, except for any lands actually possessed by any other Christian prince beyond this meridian prior to Christmas, 1492.”

In the historical narrative we have been given, this papal bull was issued a year after the Fall of Grenada, on January 2nd, 1492, effectively ending Moorish rule in Spain when Muhammad XII surrendered.

It is important to note that the 1452 “Dum Diversas” papal bull of Pope Nicholas V granted the Crown of Portugal full and free permission to invade, search out, capture and subjugate unbelievers and enemies of Christ wherever they may be…and to reduce their persons into perpetual slavery…

…and his 1455 “Romanus Pontifex” papal bull was a follow-up to the “Dum Diversas,” confirming the Crown of Portugal’s dominion over all lands discovered or conquered during the Age of Discovery, encouraging the seizure of the lands of the Saracens, pagans, and other enemies of Christ, and repeated the earlier bull’s permission for the enslavement of such peoples.

While it is important to mention that “saracen” was a term for Muslims widely used in Europe, it is also the name given to giant megalithic standing stones in Great Britain and other places called sarsen, shortened from saracen, stones.

These three papal bulls – the “Dum Diversas,” “Romanus Pontifex,” and “Inter Cetera” – were to become major documents in the development of subsequent legal doctrines regarding claims of empire in the “New World.” 

As an example of this, they were cited in the matter of the lands claimed after the “Lewis and Clark Expedition,” also known to history as the “Corps of Discovery,” which took place between 1804 and 1806.

In our historical narrative, after the Corps of Discovery arrived back in St. Louis on September 23rd of 1806.

European colonialism intentionally created divides over the landmass of the earth, creating new countries from lands that were taken, as well as creating divisions and discords between peoples that originally existed in harmony worldwide.

This particular journey across North Africa to the Cape Verde Islands diagrams ways in which European colonizers consolidated power and control over the landmass of the Earth, and raises a lot of questions about the nature of what exactly caused the devastation and desertification throughout this region.

I for one don’t believe it was caused by natural processes over long periods of time as we are taught to believe.

I believe that Earth’s people and grid system were deliberately hijacked by dark beings with a negative agenda, who don’t want us to wake up to our true history and who we really are, and have worked very hard to keep this from happening!

I also believe that the destruction of the Earth’s surface was deliberately caused, and that the original ancient advanced Moorish civilization was wiped-out, erased from our collective memory, and that a new historical narrative was created, based on the underpinnings of the original civilization, but original meanings and intents were twisted and subverted in order to create a system of control for Humanity.

One more thought before I end this post.

I absolutely believe they are not going to get away with what they have done to the Earth and to us, and that we have a much better future than what was planned for us.

They have lost control of the narrative no matter how hard they try to get it back.

No matter how things look on the surface, it’s alway the darkest before the dawn.