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Apocalypse Island was the biggest farce i have seen in weeks. Shame on the History channel for airing something so ridiculous. The programmer, and producer should be ridiculed!!! First of all they only show the island during the last 15 minutes of the show. Second they show a column of basalt and try to convince you it's a Mayan Temple? no monument? No celestial marker. He drug this poor friend along to scale the height of this 150 foot column to look for a clue to 2012. The friend intelligently asks wheres the evidence of human intervention? The response? I have to wait for the archaelogists to examine the site. Trust me there was no sight or site, and it will be a cold day in hell before any archeologist travels the three days by boat from Peru to look for MAYAN temples. This show was absolute bunk....

I am as interested as anyone about the 2012 hype, it's definitely something fun to chat about for the next few years. However, the problem I have with this episode is that Jim Turner says that this island, off the coast of Chile, is the only vantage point that you can see both the solar eclipse and the venus transit. This is not true. You will not even be able to view the solar eclips from the southern hemisphere. The Venus transit is only partially seen at sunset from the Juan Fernandez islands. Here are the links.
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venus transit

Not only was the "monument" completely indistiguishable from other rock formations I've seen, but also the long-haired friend is absolutely no mountaineer. The man was hiking with no trekking poles, and every mountaineer knows the importance of poles. He also admitted that the rain fly was not properly secured and was flapping around. How can an "accomplished mountaineer" not be able to perform the most simplest of tasks? On top of that, he did not wear climbing shoes when climbing the rock, stupid, he wore merrells and no chalk bag. He had all of that protection, but used none of it to save him from a potential fall. This guy and the show should have been on the comedy channel or better yet, not aired at all.

Jim Turner's website, apocalypseisland.com, shows a satellite image of Robinson Crusoe Island (aka Más a Tierra, aka Juan Fernandez island) about 400 miles wnw of Santiago, Chile.

Watching the rebroadcast on Tuesday, March 9, but missed the first half hour. It's the usual breathy semi-psychic pseudo-babble I've come to expect from the History Channel, where they pad out the 2 hours by repeating themselves alot. Entertaining, but not especially well researched or
And get all the shots of the two mountaineers hiking up the island, from a distance (and from above!) -- how did the camera crew get there? By helicopter?
I don't know a whole bunch about Mayan culture, particularly the stuff from Palenque, but I *have* been to Tikal in Guatemala (those temples sticking up out of the jungle, which some will recognize as the jungle planet from the original _Star Wars_) and the island stuff didn't look anything like that or Palenque.

Creator linked to the annular solar eclipse of May 2012, not the last total solar eclipse (TSE) of 2012, that will occur on 11/13/2012. This TSE is visible from the Juan Fernandez Islands.

Also, the link names are reversed. the Venus link sends you to the NASA eclipse site; the eclipse link goes to the Venus transit.

Who is Jim Turner and what are his archeological creds? What other evidence exists to indicate the Mayans traveled hundreds of miles to Robinson Crusoe Island (that Turner has renamed "Apocalypse Island")? Describing a lava plug as an ancient shrine was a stretch. The History Channel needs to stick to history.

My comment is to Jim Turner is I have discovered some alignments with apocalypse island they are very interesting and I think you should see them .

This is Juan Fernandez Island and of you google it on google maps , you will see a small town on the supposes remote uninhabited island ...I think this is a hoax.

This "documentary" was one of the lamest presentations I have ever seen. There were so many falsehoods it would be hard to list them all. There is considerable evidence through recent translation of Mayan monuments, that these were a series of city-states in constant battle with each other. There is no documanted sea travel or links with Peru (see the scholarly book "Guns, Germs, and Steel").

The island in question is one of the Juan Fernandez Islands administered by Chile, and is hardly as remote as implied. In fact there is an airport available and a population on some of the islands which are supported by tourism. So they did not need to take that garbage scow to reach the island.

At one point in the show, one of the "explorers" says that the "monument' had no heiroglyphs because they didn't want to call attention to it. No sign of tools, no sign of cutting into rock like you might see in Lalibela in Ethiopia, and no human remains or sign of ancient Mayan settlement. BAH! HUMBUG!

This documentary will convince most people that Mayans never made a single monument on this Island.

There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that humans created stone monuments depicting jaguars and/or sun gods on the Juan Fernández Islands. Nevertheless, the History Channel and Jim Turner allege a tall rock formation on Juan Fernández Islands is a Mayan monument depicting a jaguar and a sun god. However nowhere in the 2 hour long documentary "Apocalypse Island" is any convincing evidence presented. Furthermore, photographs of the rock formation in no way match the artist representation of the monument presented in the second half of the show; the rock formation was created by erosion just like Chimney Rock in Nebraska.

Besides the facts already pointed out by you all (the basalt column that's supposed to be a monument, the "expert" mountaineer, etc), what irks me most is the actual trip to "The Island". The scenes shown are of Robinson Crusoe island, something which has been confirmed by Mr. Turner on a response to someone on another site. Robinson Crusoe is the largest island in the Juan Fernández archipelago, which consists of three separate islands.

As it turns out, Robinson Crusoe island is actually inhabited (a small town with a population of just over 300 people before the tsunami hit it). Cargo ships regularly deliver supplies from Valparaíso, so there would have been no need to wander around looking to hire a fishing boat to take them there. On top of that, there's an airstrip on Robinson Crusoe, and regular flights to "The Island" from Santiago.

BTW, the "momument" is a known landmark, but the islanders have NEVER thought of it as man-made.