Sea Level Study Reveals Atlantis Candidate

NewScientist.com ^ | 9-19-2001 | Jon Copley

[4CJ]

There will always be skeptics - look how many today that don't believe that we put men on the moon. But there are a lot of "unsolved" mysteries still to be explained.

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Late night bump.

[#3Fan]

The Altiplano isn't 300 miles long and 100 miles wide is it? It's interrupted by mountains in the middle. Look here.

[#3Fan]

Oops, didn't mean to post the previous without explaining. Notice the perfect rectangular plain about 100 miles West of Guam on the ocean floor, about 300 miles long and 100 miles wide, like Plato said, lined up rectangularly North, South, East, West. Notice how inside the trench, along with the plain, in the big 1000 long diamond, the ocean floor is much more clearly defined with mountain ranges. Outside the trench it looks like there's been much more build up of sediment, and there's a different kind of distribution of mountains and hills. The diamond looks like a relief map of a Continent. Nowhere else does the ocean floor look this way according to these maps on this National Geographic map page.

[pepsionice]

Why are you guys looking in the wrong location? Atlantis is really Anarcticia. It was in a different location around 10 to 12k years ago and was the size that Plato described.

[#3Fan]

Actually the diamond is 1500 to 2000 miles long.

[#3Fan]

Why are you guys looking in the wrong location? Atlantis is really Anarcticia. It was in a different location around 10 to 12k years ago and was the size that Plato described.

Antarctica isn't underwater.

[a nation o' flaws]

along with the 'lost city' we're awaiting a report on, there's other evidence that Atlantis was in the Carribean at

http://www.andrewcollins.net/page/secretloc/cubapoints.htm

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Did you check this out?

http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b34ba6163f0.htm

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Neat maps, thanks. I am still leaning toward the Americas.

[NoCurrentFreeperByThatName]

Me to! I say somewhere around Mobile Bay.

Nice article, huh?

Stay safe in AL.

[blam]

Imagine the Altiplano filled up with water, huh. What happend to the mountains in the middle? Islands huh?

[#3Fan]

along with the 'lost city' we're awaiting a report on, there's other evidence that Atlantis was in the Carribean at

I believe that Atlantis was a great continent with a great people that controlled many areas of the world spreading their culture very much like the British Empire. However, I think their continent is at the bottom of the sea like Plato and perhaps the bible says (the bible speaks of a great "Zidon"...Poseidon?...it may be the Sidon of the middle east but Tyre was greater) and I believe it's in the area of the Philipines. The Sphinx has a Philipine-like face. That's probably why the nose is knocked off. A Philipine nose (flat) does not resemble the nose of the race of the Pharoahs and so it was...ahem...removed (just a guess).

[#3Fan]

The altiplano of South America is irregular and there are mountains in the middle. It doesn't sound like Plato's account. Vital statistics of the plain:

Plain
Oblong, 3000 stadia long, 1000 stadia wide (330 miles long and 110 miles wide)
Open to the sea on the south (where the canal exited to the sea)
Surrounded by mountains to the north

Ditch around the Plain
100 feet deep
1 stade wide
10,000 stade long (surrounding the whole plain) (1100 miles long)

Looks very regular (rectangular). The 110 foot deep, one third mile wide ditch is huge and should still be there if it ever existed in South America.

[blam]

Time will tell. I don't like waiting but there are no alternatives.

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South American Atlantis
By Kathy A. Svitil

The Aymara people of the Bolivian highlands have long told stories of a lost underwater city: Wanaku, the Atlantis of South America. They have whispered tales of a mysterious island in Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake, with a hidden entrance to underground passageways built by the Inca. Now researchers have found the first concrete evidence that those legends may be true.

In August, divers with the Italian firm of Akakor Geographical Exploring conducted a series of 250 dives in Titicaca's murky waters. Led by a 2300-foot-long ancient road, now under water, they found the remains of a 660-foot-long and 160-foot-wide stone temple between 65 to 100 feet below the water's surface. The team also discovered a terrace, a 2600-foot-long containing wall, along with a stone anchor, vases, and bones from cameloid animals such as llama or alpaca that may have been killed in a ritual sacrifice.

The ruins lie in the waters between Bolivia's Copacabana Peninsula and Isla del Sol, home to the Temple of the Sun, where the Incan dynasty is said to have been born. They date to between 1,500 and 1,000 years ago, before the rise of the Incan Empire, when the Tiahuanaco people occupied the shores of Titicaca.

The submerged ruins may be the remains of the Aymara's legendary city, or could have been assimilated by the Inca Empire itself. "The underground passageways were reputed to link many parts of the Incan Empire with the capital at Cuzco," says head diver Stefano Castelli. "Somebody else said he removed a stone from the bottom of the lake, and saw water going down inside the hole."

"There are still a lot of secrets in this area."

[Always Right]

Just over 11,000 years ago, the slow rise of post-glacial sea levels accelerated briefly to more than two metres per century, according to records from coral reefs. This would have swamped the island, Collina-Girard suggests. "The archipelago was engulfed 9000 years before Plato," he says.

An absolutely incredible find. The only scientific explaination for such a sealevel rise is the presence of SUVs over 9000 years ago. Simply incredible!

[#3Fan]

Oh, hell, I must've been tired last night, that says oblong.

[#3Fan]

Good Story. South America does have very strange anomalies.

[blam]

Indonesia 11-12,000 years ago. Atlantis?