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« Reply #45 on: February 24, 2008, 06:50:58 pm »










FINLAND





Finnish eccentric Ior Bock locates Atlantis in the Baltic sea, at southern part of Finland,
where he claims a small community of people lived during the Ice Age.

This was possible due to Gulf Stream which brought warm water to the Finnish coast.

This is a small part of a large saga that he claims to have been told in his family through
the ages, dating back to the development of language itself. The family saga tells the
name Atlantis comes from Swedish words allt-land-is ("all-land-ice") and refers to the
last Ice-Age.

Thus in the Bock family saga it's more a time period than an exact geographical place.
According to this the Atlantis disappeared in 8016 BC when the Ice-Age ended in Fin-
land and the ice melted away.[34]
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« Reply #46 on: February 24, 2008, 06:57:46 pm »









INDONESIA/SUNDALAND




 
Several groups independently advocate the seas around Indonesia as a site for Atlantis,
which was a large unsubmerged plain known as Sundaland during the Wisconsin glaciation,
which ended around 10,000 BC, and connected also to Indonesia.

Key to this argument is that the Ocean of Atlantis refers to the ocean which encircles
Eurasia and Africa, which was the historical understanding until Christopher Columbus.

Natives of Sundaland who fled the rising waters or volcanic explosions eventually had
contact with Ancient Egyptians, who later passed the story onto Plato who gets some,
but not all of the details correct, including location and time period.

Some proponents argue that Atlantis myth is seen as a growth of, or in combination with,
Lemuria and other Eden myths.



The main advocate of this theory is the Brazilian professor of nuclear physics
Arysio Nunes dos Santos.[35]

HERE:


http://atlantisonline.smfforfree2.com/index.php/topic,1591.0.html


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« Reply #47 on: February 24, 2008, 07:08:02 pm »









IRELAND





This idea was presented in the book

"Atlantis from a Geographer's Perspective:
Mapping the Fairy Land"
(2004)

by Swedish geographer Dr. Ulf Erlingsson from Uppsala University.

It hypothesized that the empire of Atlantis refers to the Neolithic Megalithic tomb culture,
based on their similar geographic extent, and deduced that the island of Atlantis then must
correspond to Ireland.

The similarities of size and landscape were found to be statistically significant, while the
null hypothesis (that Plato invented Atlantis as fiction) was rejected.[36]

Based on this result, the speculation was made that the capital of Atlantis could be connect-
ed with Newgrange, Knowth, and Tara, Ireland.

As regards the sinking of Atlantis, it was suggested that it is a memory from another time
and place, notably the Dogger Bank area. It was an island that sank in the North Sea about
6100 BCE.

While the world sea level rose gradually, as the Ice Age ice sheets melted, there was a
sudden sea level rise at this time due to the final drainage of Lake Agassiz. At about the
same time, a tsunami from the Storegga Slide is believed to have devastated the island in
the manner described by Plato. (See also entry on North Sea below.)

Other hypotheses place the location of Atlantis between Britain and France on the Celtic
Shelf.[37] This hypothesis was first developed seriously by Lewis Spence and has been
recently revived by some oceanographers.
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« Reply #48 on: February 24, 2008, 07:22:44 pm »









ISLA DE LA JUVENTUD

CUBA





Recent underwater discoveries off the west coast of Cuba have led some to speculate
on an Atlantean connection.

However, even before these discoveries were announced, author Andrew Collins had
explored the Cuba connection in a book titled "Gateway to Atlantis".

Collins supports his hypothesis with a great deal of indirect but compelling historical and
geographical evidence. He finally suggests present-day Isle of Youth and the shallow
sea bottom that surrounds it as a possible location for Atlantis.[38]
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« Reply #49 on: February 24, 2008, 07:32:23 pm »









MADEIRA





The islands of Madeira have also been identified as a possible location for the island of
Atlantis, West of the Straits of Gibraltar and close to the Mediterranean Sea.

Plato's account of the destruction of Atlantis describes a great earthquake and a result-
ing flood.

The ocean region around Madeira is bordered to the north by the junction of the European
and African tectonic plates, and to the west by the mid-Atlantic ridge, another plate junct-
ion. This area is plagued by seismic activity to this day.

Additionally, volcanic activity can easily disrupt geological stability in a region, triggering
fault slips and earthquakes.

Ancient mesoamerican folklore contains numerous accounts of refugees fleeing a volcanic
eruption in the Atlantic, including an eyewitness account of the explosion.

The Madeiran Archepaelago is the remains of a giant caldera created by a volcanic collapse
after much of its magma was ejected as lava.[39]

Such calderas often encase magma channels which form into subsidiary volcanoes, and
new calderas following their own eruption. However, remnants of the original caldera might
still collapse even further after the second eruption, and such a collapse could have been
the cause of the floods and sinking of the island in Plato's telling.

There is also the possibility that the eruption was caused by a phreatic explosion, similar
to the destruction of Krakatoa. Such an explosion would have scattered small shards of
the island all across the Northern Atlantic region and might even have caused a small ice
age.[40]
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« Reply #50 on: February 24, 2008, 09:43:14 pm »

Great collection of maps, Bianca! 

It must have been hard finding them all.
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This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean. But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.
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« Reply #51 on: February 24, 2008, 09:44:44 pm »

Anyone have a picture of the Zapata area of Cuba?
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« Reply #52 on: February 24, 2008, 10:15:50 pm »





This one is taking a loooong time, Desi!

I'm sure I ran into that (Zapata) a month or so ago.  Give me time to get this
project done & I'll find it to you.

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« Reply #53 on: February 25, 2008, 08:55:25 am »











MEXICO





Mexico has also been subject to Gene Matlock hypothesis who argues that he found Atlantis there.

Basing on etymology, he suggest in his "The last Atlantis book"[42] that the Sanskrit language spoken
in the Indian subcontinent is the father of most world-class languages to explain the meaning of

                                                                "Atlantis"

and from there he makes a connection between Mexico and India.[43]
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« Reply #54 on: February 25, 2008, 09:06:09 am »











NORTH SEA





The North Sea is known to contain lands that were once above water.

The medieval town of Dunwich in East Anglia, for example, has since crumbled into the sea, and
prehistoric remains have been dredged up from the Dogger Bank.

Atlantis itself has been identified with the island of Heligoland off the north-west German coast
by the author Spanuth, Jürgen,[44] who postulates that it was destroyed during the Bronze Age
around 1200 BCE, only to partially re-emerge during the Iron Age.

Ulf Erlingsson hypothesized that the island that sank referred to Dogger Bank, and the city itself
referred to the Silver Pit meteorite impact crater at the base of Dogger Bank.

There is also the Oera Linda Book, which states that a land called Atland once existed in the
North Sea, but was destroyed in 2194 BCE.
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« Reply #55 on: February 25, 2008, 09:35:20 am »









NEW ZEALAND





New Zealand is known to have held many sunken islands big enough to have held Atlantis.

Some people have pointed to a number of Maori tribespeople living on a number of these
islands, who had a very different culture compared to Maoris on the mainland.

This hypothesis has been debunked by experts, however a number of New Zealand scientists
and archeologists are looking into the matter.
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« Reply #56 on: February 25, 2008, 09:43:02 am »









SEA OF AZOV





Atlantis Motherland, by authors Flying Eagle and Whispering Wind, published in 2003,
locates the Island of Atlantis beneath the Sea of Azov and on the adjacent fertile
plains to the west in Ukraine and to the east in Krasnodar Kray, Russia.[46]

Their research is based on tectonic evidence of a massive earthquake centered at
Kerch, at the end of the Pleistocene and evidence of a great flood at the end of the
Younger Dryas ice age, in 9600 BC.

This date corresponds with the date set by an aged Egyptian priest for the destruct-
ion of Atlantis, as recorded in the dialogues of Plato. A massive earthquake caused
the island to sink, creating a new sea, which according to Eagle/Wind is the Sea of
Azov. The violent earthquakes and floods left the new sea “impassable and impene-
trable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way.” The aged priest refers to the
shoals of mud as still existing at that time. The Sea of Azov was blocked by shoals
of mud at that time, and would still be today without regular dredging.

The Eagle/Wind team has published a theory regarding the destruction of Atlantis,
which they call "The Great Atlantis Flood";[47] One terrible day and night of misfor-
tune; the extraordinary inundation of Atlantis and Attica. Their theory proposes that,
with over one third of Europe draining into the land-locked Black Sea, and over-flow
from the Caspian Sea at the end of the Younger Dryas, the level of the Black Sea
rose to within 20 meters of its current level. A devastating earthquake and resulting
tsunami increased the hydraulic pressure on a proposed subterranean outflow channel,
flowing beneath the Bosporus land bridge and the present day Sea of Marmara and
northern Aegean Sea, causing this subterranean channel to catastrophically rupture,
generating the “extraordinary inundation” of ancient Attica.

The Island of Atlantis, Attica and lands of the ancient Hellenes were all destroyed by
the catastrophe. The survivors fled the treacherous sea shores and widespread dis-
ease and began founding new settlements.
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I know a lot of folks in this forum were originally in the Atlantis Rising Forum and are aware of
Flying Eagle's theory of Atlantis in The Azov.




Aloha friends,

My precious Flying Eagle has transcended this earth plain,
and soars above the heavenly cloud heights.




Information about the celebration of Leon’s life is at:


 http://www.atlantis-today.com/Flying-Eagle.html




Now Flying Eagle has joined our ancestors, and I know he sends great blessings to us all.




Live in Harmony. Enjoy life!

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« Reply #58 on: February 25, 2008, 10:07:19 am »









ESTREMADURA, PORTUGAL





This theory states that Atlantis was no other than the Chalcolithic civilization of Vila Nova
de Sao Pedro and that Mycenean Greeks would have fought against them for the control
of tin routes in alliance with neighbour Iberian civilization of El Argar, which shows some
clear Hellenization in its B phase. The catastrophe described would be an earthquake with
tsunami like the one suffered by Lisbon in 1755.

But there is something that might shake all this, and that is a quote from Plato's book and it is:

"It is located out of pillars of Hercules".

The recent location of a sea branch reaching Zambujal (the main city of this culture) and the
evidence that it was silted somehow when VNSP ended [4], seem to add some weight to this
theory.
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« Reply #59 on: February 25, 2008, 10:30:39 am »











SWEDEN



 
Olaus Rudbeck wrote "Atlantica", where he argues that Scandinavia, specifically Sweden,
is identical with Atlantis.


Some think that his suggestion was not entirely serious.[48]




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