North PoleThe high Canadian Arctic is called "the land of the midnight sun". The sun rises only once each year and sunset comes 6 months later. This barren land is frozen year round so trees cannot grow there. Near the North Pole, on Axel Heiberg Island, the most stunning fossil forest in the world was discovered in 1986. Canadian scientists are amazed at how well preserved the specimens are. Some of the trees in the one-kilometer site are clearly redwoods and water firs, both of which are found in south-eastern Asia. This fossil forest is not petrified. There are stumps a meter wide and leaves so fresh that they seem to have just been plucked from the trees. H. P. Blavatsky states in The Secret Doctrine, Vol. II, p.400: "Occult teaching corroborates the popular tradition which asserts the existence of a fountain of life in the bowels of the earth and in the North Pole. It is the blood of the earth, the electro-magnetic current, which circulates through all the arteries; and which is said to be found stored in the ‘navel' of the earth." |