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CASPAK


by: Rick Johnson
PO Box 40451
Tucson, Az.
85717
RikJohnson@juno.com


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CASPAK

Originally discovered by the Italian Navigator Caproni (about which I have been unable to discover anything, possibly due to the political intrigues he suffered) who followed Cook in the 1700’s. He described a large continent or island in the southern Pacific Ocean which had unclimbable cliffs and which deflected his compass.
Some two hundred years later, a German u-boat re-discovered the island and explored the inside. This expedition, led by Tyler, provided the first glimpse of the land called Caspak. A year later the Billings expedition arrived to rescue Tyler and his people. It is from this expedition that we learn of the Weir-oo.

It has been theorized that because of the unusual biology of the island, Caspak was an experiment created and run by advanced extraterrestrials. To date, there is no evidence for this theory and no sightings of these mythical ETs has been observed.


MAPS


To date the best map made of Caspak was the one made by the Tyler/Billings expedition during the First World War. Although there have been a very few additional visitors to that land, none have been able to improve on the original though a very few additional details have been added by later expeditions.
Located to the west of South America below 60 degrees south, Caspak is a super-volcano growing from the ocean’s floor and currently dormant for some thousands or millions of years, yet the magma beneath the crust is still warm enough to provide a tropical environment within the caldera despite being surrounded by iceburgs.


It’s high walls that extend some 1500 meters straight up provide no anchorage or bay and the only entry is via a fresh-water river opening that is submerged at high tide and partially exposed at low tide.


The island is low plains at the south which is inhabited by dinosauria and higher, cooler hills in the north that is inhabited by more recent mammalia that became extinct in the outer world long ago. Humans live within Caspak but the more primative forms are in the south and their evolution increases as you move north culminating with the Cro-Magnum (Ga-lu) form in the far north.

Although the remarkable evolution within that island is best learned by reading the expedition reports of the above noted explorers, there are some additional matters that may be described here.


Other papers of interest on the Island.

Sociology of the Weiroo by Rick Johnson

Weiroos of Caprona. by Ben Valdron

Mystery of Caprona. by Ben Valdron

Caspak by Tony Phillips.


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by: Rick Johnson
PO Box 40451
Tucson, Az.
85717


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