Discovered: A sunken island, an Indian Ocean Atlantis?

groundviews ^ | April Fools Day 2009 | Banyan News Reporters

[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.

[SunkenCiv]

Entry is dated 14 March 2009, but it turned up in the news search on April 1. :')

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[bigheadfred]

Marine archaeologists have just discovered evidence of a large submerged landmass southeast of Sri Lanka

They have decided to name it "the Ocean Floor".

[BenLurkin]

Euphemistic antediluvian bump.

[IDRATHERNOT]

Must have been hidden by melting polar ice caps. Damn bronze age global warming.

[Vaquero]

the original article was dated thus:

“April Fools Day 2009 “

[Quix]

Thanks for the ping.

[Unam Sanctam]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

Wholeheartedly agree.

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!

[ApplegateRanch]

Damn bronze age global warming.

It's what they deserved for refusing to stop flying Sport Utility Vimanas.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I thought they determined they had found Atlantis off the Canary Islands?

[Above My Pay Grade]

Maybe they will find 0bama’s birth certificate there.

[ApplegateRanch]

Irisiyawa’s 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

[bigheadfred]

NOW I KNOW why they call this the subcontinent.

[JoeProBono]

[bigheadfred]

You don’t have access to any sharp objects, I hope? LOL

[JoeProBono]

"You don’t have access to any sharp objects, I hope?"

I did but I used them all.

[bigheadfred]

“It’s what’s for dinner”

I’m fondue, too, Joe.

If not for you, I would be forced to read the articles. :-)