Pellucidar
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Pellucidar was an underground world with prehistoric animals from various Edgar Rice Burroughs books.
According to the Seventh Doctor, Pellucidar was inspired by the capital city of the Silurians. (AUDIO: The Silurian Candidate [+]Loading...["The Silurian Candidate (audio story)"])
Trivia
- Pellucidar was made by the same writer as Tarzan, the feral man who occasionally went there; most notably including the novel Tarzan at the Earth's Core and two episodes of the Disney series The Legend of Tarzan.
- Pellucidar features many prehistoric fauna which have also made some appearances in Doctor Who, including dinosaurs, mammoths, mastodons, sabre-toothed tigers, Megatheriums, Phorusrhacoses, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, Dimetrodons, cave bears and Neanderthals.