Atlantis off the Gibraltar Strait? Myth and geolog

[Ewig Berter]

The bathymetric maps from the western part of the Gibraltar Strait indicate the occurrence of a shoal between –56 and –200 m depth. During the Late Glacial Maximum (21–19 kyr BP), this shoal was the main island of an archipelago lying between Europe and Africa. The island (14 km × 5 km) was set in the middle of a narrow pass in the western part of the present strait, opening westward into an inner sea. This island was submerged around 11 kyr BP. This location, the palaeolandscapes for the Late Glacial period, and the time of submergence exactly fit the Atlantis description given by Plato in the ‘Timaeus’. The ‘mighty power which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia’ could be the irrupting culture of northern Europe pushed to the south by the rough climates of the Late Glacial Maximum.


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[Crimson Guard]

yes it supposed to be in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Western Africa and Spain! But their are many theories,in fact, Atlantis was described as a chain of islands.Theirs the beleif that Islands like Sicily,Sardinia,Malta Thera/Santorini and such was in fact Atlantis.

Professor Axel Haussmann presented his theory about Atlantis on a former Sicily/Malta plateau in the Mediterranean. This theory would require the Strait of Gibraltar to be closed and the Mediterranean to be separated from the Atlantic Ocean as late as 3,500 BC.

The Grahm Hancock Books are quite good as well!