These large stone spheres in the Franz Josef archipelago leave scientists flummoxed. Visitors to this cosmic landscape named the round rocks ‘footballs of the Gods’. The huge stone balls up to two metres in height are found on appropriately-named Champ island above the polar circle. Perfectly spherical they are scattered all over this northern uninhabited outpost. The barren 374 km2 (144 sq miles) island was never inhabited and scientists cannot agree how they were formed. Similar but smaller stone balls were found last year on Heiss island in the same archipelago. On Heiss island ‘the spherulites look like round bullets or cannon balls. We found balls of different sizes, but none as big as at Champ island.’ As previous reports have noted every geologist seems to have their own theory. Austrian geologist Sepp Fridhubera claimed the rounded shapes of the rocks were formed underwater and they have an organic core in the centre. Similar round stones were discovered in Volgograd, Costa Rica, New Zealand, China, Bosnia, and South Africa. Another unexplained nature phenomenon in a remote area around the world.
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J.Anthony
6/6/2021 08:22:29 am
Initially I thought it might have been the prank of an MFA grad following in the steps of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty creation, but the additional photographic evidence shows what appear to be natural geologic formations.
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Alan Morland
6/6/2021 11:12:34 am
I have found round stones on Minnesota that are attributed to the retreat of the glaciers.
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Manx
6/6/2021 12:24:37 pm
Lol, no they aren't....quit making shit up....
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Sandi Coll
6/6/2021 05:49:28 pm
They look like concretions.
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Vivian C Davis
6/8/2021 09:57:11 pm
Exactly, they are concretions.
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6/11/2021 01:07:30 am
You find these round stones all over the World - also in the South America...
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