Champ Island is located far north at 80 degrees north latitude in the Arctic Ocean. It is located in the central part of an archipelago of 192 large and small islands, collectively known as Franz Josef Land.
The area of all the islands of the archipelago is 16134 sq. kilometers. The size of the archipelago is approximately 200 x 350 km. The area of Champ Island is 374 sq. kilometers. Its highest point is located above sea level at an altitude of 507 meters.
Map: Arctic Ocean, Spitsbergen archipelago, Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, New Siberian Islands, northern seas of the Arctic Ocean.
Champ Island got its name from the name of the head of the English rescue expedition, William Champ, who in July 1905 arrived in the archipelago on the Scottish barque "Terra Nova" to evacuate the American polar expedition (researchers Ziegler, Fiala), which tried three times without success in the period 1904-1905 years to reach the North Pole.
Geographically, the Franz Josef Land archipelago is now part of the Primorsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region of the Russian Federation.
Champ Island is rocky, with steep slopes dropping to the ocean. On its territory there are several rocky peaks, from which glaciers descend to the shores. In the central part there is a high, flat plateau. There are no glaciers in the southwestern part of the island, the coast is open. From the coastal slopes, beautiful horizons open to the ocean and views of the neighboring straits and islands. According to tourists and members of various expeditions, the island has delicious spring water.
Archipelago of islands Franz Josef Land.
Adjacent to the Champ Island (to the south through the strait, 15 km.) Gall Island.
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But most of all, Champ Island is notable for another, on it there are many stone balls (of various diameters from 2 centimeters to 3 meters), the nature of their origin is unknown. This mysterious fact has become largely the reason for the growing summer tourism to the archipelago and in particular to this island.
Nobody knows when and how the stone balls appeared.
In this regard, I propose to analyze the little available information and think about the origin of the balls of Champ Island (these are exactly these, and not all the others in the world at once, since balls are of different origins).
As he said in the IV century BC. e. the ancient Greek thinker and philosopher Plato: "Everything that arises must have some reason for its occurrence, for it is absolutely impossible to arise without a reason."
What we have for analysis and reflection:
1. Large stone balls were found only on one of the islands of this archipelago. Not on other islands (in any case, it has not yet been found). The straits between the islands in the archipelago are small - from 1 to 40 kilometers. Climatically, the islands are no different from each other and, thus, by general external natural and weather conditions, they are linked into a single whole. All the islands of the archipelago are in one group, and there are balls on only one.
This means that the natural reason for the origin of the stone balls disappears. Otherwise, nature would have made a similar spherical uniformity on all neighboring islands.
2. The balls are located not deep in the ground, but in the open access on the surface, lying among many fragments of small stones of various irregular shapes.
Stone balls on the slope of Champ Island.
The rounded shape of the balls among the stone placers says that they are not a product of "blind" nature. It should be noted that large balls, turned slightly to one side, have a slight elongation - a "neck", which probably served as a support in the ground.
3. On the chips of large balls, it can be seen that they consist of a monolithic structure.
Champ Island. Large chipped balls from a solid mass.
The balls are not layered like “cabbage”, but from one whole layer of rock. Although it is not uncommon for sandstones to have a pronounced multilayer sedimentary structure.
The existence of balls from one whole massif says that they are created not by internal, evenly developing, "growing" in different directions energy tension, but by external influence applied to a large rock mass.
In the photo of the chipped ball (the lower of the three), it can be seen that the processing from above has not been completed. The ball does not have a perfectly round shape, or it is turned upside down with its "neck".
4. The material of the stone balls is sandstone.
Sandstone is a stone of natural origin, sedimentary rock. It is sand cemented by time and pressure. Sandstone is a homogeneous or layered composition of grains ranging in size from 0.05 mm to 2 mm. Sandstone density 2250 - 2670 kg / m³; porosity 0.69 - 0.70%; the moisture absorption of the stone is low.
Sandstone is relatively easy to handle by hand (stone on stone). Many ancient structures around the world are made of sandstone by human hand (the Cheops pyramid in Egypt, dense polygonal masonry from hewn stones in South America, the foundations of buildings in Greece, Syria, Israel, etc.).
The above facts say that the stone balls on Champ Island are made by an inquisitive mind, perseverance, will and skillful hand of a developed person.
Currently, people do not live permanently on the archipelago (only watch).
But this was not always the case!
Group of Islands of the Royal Society. South of Champ Island.
Coal mining today in northern Russia in mines in the vicinity of Vorkuta (this is 67 degrees north latitude), in the Russian village of Barentsburg on the Spitsbergen archipelago (78 degrees north latitude) at depths of 100-500 meters, as well as proven oil reserves on the shelf in the Kara and Pechersk Seas of the Arctic Ocean at depths of 100 meters, it is said that large lush forests once grew at this level.
The current bottom of these seas and the seams of modern coal mines were once on the surface. The sea level was lower than the modern one by 100-200 meters and more.
Currently scattered numerous islands in the Arctic Ocean: the Spitsbergen archipelago, Franz Josef Land, Severnaya Zemlya, Novaya Zemlya, Novosibirsk Islands up to Chukotka - all were connected to land and were part of one large modern continent Eurasia, which as a result of drift continental plates for many millions and thousands of years moved to the North.
In one of those distant time years, a primitive tribe of ancient people came to the tip of the northern continent of Eurasia (modern land of Franz Josef).
In ancient times, people moved freely and settled lands around the world.
Similarly, the first people came to Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean. And they came there only by land, since there was no shipping in ancient times.
If you look at the map of the World, you can see that from the western coast of South America, going far into the Pacific Ocean, there is a long "stone ridge". A chain of seamounts stretches for more than 7000 kilometers. When the ocean level was much lower, then it was a mountain, earthen spit going into the ocean, connected with the mainland.
When the water rose, people on Easter Island (now the island's area is 163 sq. Km), as well as on Champ Island, found themselves in a water environment. However, the inhabitants of Easter Island did not die, since the climate around them was favorable for life. The psychology of the behavior of the ancient islanders in terms of the arrangement of stone sculptures is similar.
Small Bell Island in the southern part of the Franz Josef Land archipelago.
Tourists, currently visiting Champ Island, find the bones (ribs) of whales - that is, the same food that fishermen and residents of modern Chukotka in Russia eat today (as shown in films). It is possible that the islanders of Fr. Champ as well as modern fishermen hunted whales, butchering their carcasses on the shore.
The islands had life, some vegetation and food for people.
The climate in the archipelago has changed over time. A cold snap set in and the Champ Island tribe, surrounded on all sides by water, was in a dying state.
How many millennia the life of the people lasted there is not known, but judging by the presence of stone balls, those people were no longer primitive, but similar to our contemporaries. They already had a certain religious belief system, belief in gods, conditioned by rituals of behavior and sacrifices.
These stone balls are nothing more than belonging to the ritual worship of the sun gods (the moon, planets of the solar system, stars). Ancient people have already observed the sky. We saw and remembered where on what days, when the Sun rises from the horizon of the boundless ocean, at what time and where it sets in the ocean water.
People felt the warmth of the sun's rays and unmistakably linked the life of the entire living and plant world (including their personal life) - with the warmth of the Sun.
After a long polar night, they rejoiced and went out to meet the Sun.
People well understood that if there were no lights in the sky, they would all perish.
Observing how the time of the Sun's stay in the sky was decreasing and decreasing, they believed that a powerful deity was angry with them. And in order to appease the great god - the Sun, people made sacrifices and offerings, creating in the plural (on the south-western coast of the island illuminated and warmed by the rays of the Sun) spherical similarities - stone balls.
Stone balls of different diameters on the coast of Champ Island.
By the number of balls and the variety of their sizes, we can say that not only knowledgeable shamans, but all people of the tribe, from small to large, were engaged in their manufacture for many, many years of their lives. Each inhabitant considered it his duty and duty to make a gift to the divine Sun in order to earn his personal protection and good disposition for himself.
People all over the world follow absolutely the same logic of religious behavior. Modern people, like millennia earlier, do not have enough knowledge among the ancient inhabitants. Nothing in the behavior of most contemporaries has changed. - Fear and ignorance push them to multiple mistakes and delusions.
The ancients on Champ Island fought cold snap (resulting from the Earth's precessional circulation) by making stone balls for the Sun God. Now, the Earth's precession, moving in a circle, is causing warming in the Northern Hemisphere and modern people intend to fight against it - with carbon dioxide. Both the ancient and the present are the same in ignorance and delusion.
Judging by the fact that the stone balls were concentrated on only one Champ Island, we can conclude that by the time the manufacture of these balls began, the once single large northern land at that time had already been fragmented into islands and the Franz Josef Land archipelago was geographically similar to the modern view.
Unfortunately, the sacrifice to the sun god in the form of making his likeness - stone balls did not save the people living on the Champ Island.
The precessional rotation of the Earth (one large "Platonic year" of revolution for 25920 years) and as a result of this for many thousands of years the glaciation of the northern hemisphere - almost completely erased the entire flora and fauna on the islands of Franz Josef Land, and together with them destroyed the tribe of those ancient people.
A waterfall from a melting glacier. Franz Josef Land.
If we count the time ago by the "Platonic Years" of the Earth's precession, then these balls and that perished people should be at least about 20,000 years old.
And if these balls were made not in the last, previous period of warming in the Northern Hemisphere, but earlier, then with the cyclicality of the precessional counting, respectively, it will be - 46000, 72000, 98000, 124000 and so on years ago. - The question is when? After all, it is not known in which of the precessional cycles of the Earth people came there by land and subsequently, by the glaciation that came after thousands of years, were destroyed.
These stone balls can (along with primitive stone axes, axes, flint arrowheads and spears) be the most ancient artifacts - evidence of the handiwork of people on Earth.
South Cape Tegethoff on Gall Island. Franz Josef Land.
In 1872, the exploration and development of the archipelago began from Cape Tegethoff named after the Austrian schooner "Admiral Tegethoff".
Information and knowledge about the deserted northern Franz Josef Land is collected bit by bit. Previously, there was no way to get to these islands. In addition, the islands are hidden from exploration by a multi-meter millennial glacier that occupies most of their surface. Time and natural elements have erased many traces of a past life. The islands of the archipelago are still very little explored.
Until now, there has not been a single land-based archaeological expedition.
But over time, people will study more the history of the disappeared people of the archipelago and the Champ Island, as the road has already been paved by many researchers …