Plato First Mentioned It. Countless Others Have Speculated. And Now, a Geographer Thinks He Found It: Atlantis. Is it Modern Day Ireland? COUNTER VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT BLOG

 

Back in the day, Plato wrote that the city of Atlantis was located inside three concentric lakes created by the god Poseidon. Modern day geographer, Dr. Ulf Erlingsson, author of Atlantis from a Geographer's Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land, believes he has demonstrated the similarity between Ireland and Plato's Atlantis, concluding in his book that "beyond reasonable doubt, Plato based the geographic description of Atlantis on Ireland." 

By comparing Plato's description with 3-dimensional seismic data from oil exploration, and archaeological analyses of paleoenvironments, a plausible location has been found in the Silver Pit meteorite impact crater. If so, it is not just under the sea, but under the bottom of the sea. This would explain why it has not been found yet: 3D seismic studies is something quite new.

Erlingsson also points out that the story of the island that sank came to Ireland from elsewhere, possibly Dogger Bank in the North Sea.  New geological data may confirm the hypothesis, indicating that such a location may exist on the correct side of Dogger Bank, which is located at the correct depth for having sunk at the time Plato claimed--at the very end of the ice age.

Details of this novel Atlantis hypothesis are presented in a video, at AtlantisInIreland.com

- Lesley Scott

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