Plymouth Rock is not a useful landmark for measuring sea level changes. The rock has been submerged before, during extreme weather and exceptionally high tides.
Plymouth Rock is a well-known tourist attraction, but its connection to early U.S. history is unproven. And despite what some social media users have claimed, the landmark cannot be used to disprove that sea levels are rising.
On July 12, a Facebook user shared another meme featuring two pictures of Plymouth Rock side by side, one labeled"1620 at sea level" and the other"2022 still at sea level." These Plymouth Rock memes do not prove that sea levels remain unchanged; the posts are false and misleading.There is no evidence the rock proudly displayed under the portico in Plymouth today is the exact place where Pilgrims first disembarked the Mayflower in Plymouth, much less that it was found at sea level.
refers to the story of the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock as"oral tradition," and said no contemporary accounts of the landing mention a rock.said in 1741 an elder identified Plymouth Rock as the exact landing spot. Although the veracity of the elder’s claim is unknown, Plymouth Rock"quickly became an American icon," the site added.
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