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Discovered: A sunken island, an Indian Ocean Atlantis?
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| April Fools Day 2009
| Banyan News Reporters
Posted on 04/03/2009 12:26:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Marine archaeologists have just discovered evidence of a large submerged landmass southeast of Sri Lanka. They believe it could be a legendary lost island closely linked to the culture and history of Sri Lankan people. The landmass is estimated to be between 450,000 and 475,000 square kilometres, which is about seven times the total land area of Sri Lanka. "This could well be the long lost island of Irisiyawa, which is euphemistically mentioned in our chronicles and hinted at in the writings of Greek historians," said Dr Godwin Samarawickrama, a maritime historian at the Indian Ocean Institute based in Melacca, Malaysia... Irisiyawa's existence is first mentioned in the Sri Lankan chronicle of Culavamsa. Sinhalese Sandesa (message poem) writers in the 14th to 16th centuries often refer to the enormous psychological effect by sunken Irisiyawa on royal families, aristocracy and ordinary people. Some say the legacy of Irisiyawa has continued well into the twenty first century. Other experts are more sceptical, and point out long-standing speculations about Kumari Kandam, a legendary sunken landmass said to have been located to the south of present-day Kanyakumari District at the southern tip of India.
(Excerpt) Read more at groundviews.org ...
TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: atlantis; catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs; irisiyawa; srilanka
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Entry is dated 14 March 2009, but it turned up in the news search on April 1. :')
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posted on
04/03/2009 12:26:59 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
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04/03/2009 12:27:24 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
04/03/2009 12:27:41 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Marine archaeologists have just discovered evidence of a large submerged landmass southeast of Sri LankaThey have decided to name it "the Ocean Floor".
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posted on
04/03/2009 12:30:39 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
To: SunkenCiv
Euphemistic antediluvian bump.
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posted on
04/03/2009 12:31:03 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(And oh, Hey! I've been travelin' on this road too long)
To: SunkenCiv
Must have been hidden by melting polar ice caps. Damn bronze age global warming.
To: SunkenCiv
the original article was dated thus:
“April Fools Day 2009 “
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posted on
04/03/2009 12:36:27 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(This is coming to a head....this pimple needs a poppin')
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/03/2009 12:51:24 PM PDT
by
Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: SunkenCiv
Of course at the height of the last Ice Age, the ocean levels worldwide were much lower than today, so there would have been lots of potentially populated territory all over the world now submerged.
To: Unam Sanctam
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posted on
04/03/2009 1:08:44 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: bigheadfred
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posted on
04/03/2009 1:08:50 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: IDRATHERNOT; SunkenCiv
Damn bronze age global warming. It's what they deserved for refusing to stop flying Sport Utility Vimanas.
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posted on
04/03/2009 1:13:33 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: SunkenCiv
I thought they determined they had found Atlantis off the Canary Islands?
To: SunkenCiv
Maybe they will find 0bama’s birth certificate there.
To: SunkenCiv
Irisiyawas existence is first mentioned in the Sri Lankan chronicle of Culavamsa. ...
Other experts are more sceptical, and point out long-standing speculations about Kumari Kandam, a legendary sunken landmass said to have been located to the south of present-day Kanyakumari District at the southern tip of India. ...
... There is no scientific evidence to support these claims.Only of one discounts the known sea level rises & falls:
It stood 4-6 meters above the present during the last interglacial period, 125,000 years ago, but was 120 m lower at the peak of the last ice age, around 20,000 years ago. A study of past sea level fluctuations provides a longer-term geologic context, which can help us better anticipate future trends.
Sea Level Rise, After the Ice Melted and Today
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posted on
04/03/2009 1:22:57 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: SunkenCiv
NOW I KNOW why they call this the subcontinent.
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posted on
04/03/2009 1:24:42 PM PDT
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bigheadfred
(Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/03/2009 1:26:46 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
You don’t have access to any sharp objects, I hope? LOL
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posted on
04/03/2009 1:42:46 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
To: bigheadfred
"You dont have access to any sharp objects, I hope?"
I did but I used them all.
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posted on
04/03/2009 1:51:53 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
“It’s what’s for dinner”
I’m fondue, too, Joe.
If not for you, I would be forced to read the articles. :-)
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posted on
04/03/2009 2:09:22 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
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