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There is no mention that Plato placed Atlantis beyond the Pillars of Hercules, which are usually identified with the Strait of Gibraltar, i.e. in the Atlantic O
by DonaldFisk 3y ago
There is no mention that Plato placed Atlantis beyond the Pillars of Hercules, which are usually identified with the Strait of Gibraltar, i.e. in the Atlantic Ocean.
Atlantis is probably mythical, but it isn't the only mythical Atlantic island to go missing. There's also Brasil (or Hy Brasil), an island once regularly shown on maps off the coast of Ireland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasil_(mythical_island) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasil_(mythical_island)
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/hy-brasil-irelands-disappearing-island https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/hy-brasil-ireland...
- tastyfreeze 3y agoWouldn't that be the now submerged ridge south of Faroe Islands? A decent portion of it is less than 100 meters under water. https://earth.google.com/web/@57.33070588,-16.05633955,-123.8765433a,1751894.11886483d,35y,27.34531794h,0t,0r/data=OgMKATA https://earth.google.com/web/@57.33070588,-16.05633955,-123....
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI mean Brasil is fairly recent, go back far enough and there's a land bridge between Europe mainland and the modern day British isles (Doggerland, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland)