Ireland Is Lost Island of Atlantis, Says Scientist

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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Atlantis, the legendary island nation over whose existence controversy has raged for thousands of years, was actually Ireland, according to a new theory by a Swedish scientist.

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Atlantis, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote in 360 BC, was an island in the Atlantic Ocean where an advanced civilization developed some 11,500 years ago until it was hit by a cataclysmic natural disaster and sank beneath the waves.

Geographer Ulf Erlingsson, whose book explaining his theory will be published next month, says the measurements, geography, and landscape of Atlantis as described by Plato match Ireland almost exactly.

"I am amazed no one has come up with this before, it's incredible," he told Reuters.

"Just like Atlantis, Ireland is 300 miles long, 200 miles wide, and widest across the middle. They both have a central plain surrounded by mountains.

"I've looked at geographical data from the rest of the world and of the 50 largest islands there is only one that has a plain in the middle -- Ireland."

Erlingsson believes the idea that Atlantis sank came from the fate of Dogger Bank, an isolated shoal in the North Sea, about 60 miles off the northeastern coast of England, which sank after being hit by a huge floodwave around 6,100 BC.

"I suspect that myth came from Ireland and it derives from Dogger Bank. I think the memory of Dogger Bank was probably preserved in Ireland for around 3,000 years and became mixed up with the story of Atlantis," he said.

Erlingsson links the boundaries of the Atlantic Empire, as outlined by Plato, with the geographic distribution of megalithic monuments in Europe and Northern Africa, matching Atlantis' temples with well-known burial sites at Newgrange and Knowth, north of Dublin, which pre-date the pyramids.

His book, "Atlantis from a Geographer's Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land," calculates the probability Plato would have had access to geographical data about Ireland as 99.98 percent.

Previous theories about Atlantis have suggested it may have been around the Azores islands 900 miles west of the Portuguese coast, or in the Aegean sea

-- platoz (islandof@t.lantis), August 07, 2004

Answers

i guess it kinda makes sense. its a european legend adn ireland did have a civilisation of sorts that predated the egptions. Id like to see more about this .

-- afdgreg (zac@stuff.zac), August 08, 2004.

um no because atlantis supposedly sank, last time i checked ireland was still above sea level.

-- -- -- (foolishtheory@wellheisswiss.com), August 10, 2004.

plus it isnt a european legend. the mayans, aztecs and hindus and several other cultures have the same legend. also atlantis was on several rings connected with bridges and there aint no such thing on ireland.

-- -- -- (foolishtheory@wellheisswiss.com), August 10, 2004.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Ireland can not be the lost city. There is no evidence of a civilzation that has flying machines and so on. They think the lost city could be in Cuba. There is a lost city south of Cuba but fidel doesnt allow divers to investigate. Myans and Incas are supposed to be decendant from a civilization that launched air ships. I believe at one time there was a massive civilzation that the flood cleaned out. This may be why many ancient civilzations point statues looking out towards the seas. Some civilzation did once exist but the floods happened, all major religions believe this.

-- FacistCarter (Pike159@aol.com), August 10, 2004.

foolish theory, the first four letters of your name about sums you up. You obviosuly didnt read it right, the guy checked ancient actual descriptions and did a comparision study. He used a thing called SCIENCE, you might have heard of this. THe guy aint even irish so its not like he's making the shit up to boost tourism. Cuba? yeah, sure it was. Theres actual surviving evidence of a realativly sophisticated civilisation in ireland which predates even the pyrmaids of egypt.

What make you guys so qualified to contradict a scientist whos actually spent years researching andd studying this shit? ? oh right , you can type and surf the internet, wow.

-- (stuff@to.do), August 10, 2004.


Well I, for one, am going to celebrate this discovery with a glass of whiskey. Anybody care to join me?

-- Auntie O'Bush (Comrade_bleh@hotmail.com), August 11, 2004.

Seriously, though, if I can add my two cents into the lost civilization discussion, I'm a follower of Thor Hyerdahl, an anthropologist (I guess that's what he is) who beleives that there was an advanced civilization before recorded history that left it's mark in both the Old and New worlds. I find the idea that civilization just sort of simultaneusly sprung up in five different river valleys at the same general time without any contact amongst each other a little absurd. Hyerdahl has proved that contact between Scandinavia and the Great Lakes region, between Chile and Polynesia, and between the Andes Mountains and West Africa, were all possible with ancient technology such as longboats, balsa wood rafts, and reed boats. Traces of marijuana, tobacco, and coccaine have been found in Egyptian and Chinese mummies dating back thousands of years, when the accepted view of world history holds that none of those plants should have been in the Old World prior to 1492. There's scores of other little anomalies, things in the Old World or the New World that just shouldn't be there, if the view of history they teach us in school is correct, leading me to beleive that it is not totaly correct.

-- Anti-bush (Comrade_bleh@hotmail.com), August 11, 2004.

Anti,

Did you ever read his book Kon Tiki? If you haven't, you should.

Bazooka Joe

-- 2 (1@3.4), August 11, 2004.


if you've ever had a wander around ireland you would know why this guy is talking complete bullshit.

-- you dont have your own history so you steal other peoples (foolishthoery@foolishamericans.com), August 12, 2004.

fool theorist, when did you ever 'walk around ' ireland ? what the fk are you blubbering about? Ireland has a extremely old recorded and interesting history that can be traced back to ancient times, so what the fuck you saying we're tryin to steal someone elses' history ? ? you dumb fukwit

really though are you that stupid? you clearly know nothing about ireland. I mean what history has the USA got? A couple of hundreds years of wiping out the natives and waging wars on third world countries about sums it up.

whats you usual posting name on here? more to the point where are you from that could make such an ignorant statement ? ?

Whether it is or not, the scientist has got good hard evidence to at least back up his theory. what have you got? Shit , thats what.

-- (youcomplete@ss.hole), August 12, 2004.


by the way anti -b , i completely agree with that old world theory. Theres plenty of evidence of various civilisations going back thousands of years BC. But we've been on this planet aprox one and a half million years. We cant have spent all of that sitting around caves eating bugs off each others hair. (Apart from 'foolstheory's ancestors, whove only recently left the trees). Theres every likelyhood that older civilisations flourished then perished out of history.

-- (myrealEm@il.address), August 12, 2004.

What totaly sold me on the theory was the fact that the Sphinx's surface shows signs of water erosion that could only come from regular rainfall over a couple centuries, and that region hasn't had regular rainfall since before recorded history. The Sphinx had to have been built when the Sahara was a fertile plain thousands of years ago, when man had supposedly just discovered fire. It just doesn't fit with the accepted view of human history.

-- Anti-bush (Comrade_bleh@hotmail.com), August 13, 2004.

Maybe Horus just liked pissing on it.

Bazooka Joe

-- 2 (1@3.4), August 16, 2004.


i lived in ireland for 3 years you fucking asshole. i am doing archaeology and geology at university and i have studied the theories for surrounding atlantis for 2 years so fuck you with a stick. velikovsky managed to drag some statistics to back his claims, but it doesnt make them right. this sweedish fool hasnt stated any evidence. ATLANTIS SUNK you fucking dumbasses, does ireland look like it has sank??!! fucking americans

-- -- -- (foolishthoery@foolishamericans.com), August 17, 2004.

wow 3 whole years. youve studied squat. there are many 'descriptions' about atlantis and over thousands of years, im sure theyre still. What the guy does have is the area size and a general topographical description which the island of ireland matches more than any other island. Remember too, when you finish frothing at the mouth, that back in Platos time the known world was a smaller place so ireland would have been pretty far out into the ocean by their standards. Also if you had studied anything more than the bottom of a beer glass in ireland youd notice how much of it was once under the sea and for a very long time given the rocks fossil content etc.

now take a deep breath and calm down and 'think' before your next response.

-- (you.dumb@ss.you), August 17, 2004.


You are all wrong, this is wath happened to Atlantis:

a long long time ago, due to a violent move of the techtonic plaques, Antartica was suddenlly moved from its original location into the place where it stands right now, all Atlantis civilization is laying under the 2 Km of ice that covers Antartica.

Madeira and Azores might well be whats left over, Ireland do not make sense.

L.Balsa

-- L. Balsa (balzzza@hotmail.com), August 19, 2004.


Nope! Watching a show on dinasaurs a few years ago it said that the continent would have frozen winters and go dark for weeks. I remember the little map from the show.... walking with dinasaurs..... and it showed Antartica lower down then where australia is to-day. So, in short it didnt migrate back up for a few years and let humans get on it and then fall back down where it was. Even if it had think africa and south america where too close for a large mass like antartica to fit between them, and still be an isolated island continent.

-- Lt. Alexander (M4socom@aol.com), August 19, 2004.

antartica? isnt that the south pole? hmmm doubt its the lost island of atlantis, between the two i think id go with ireland, but hey...

-- (hmmm@hmm.hmm), August 19, 2004.

So would I. Maybe it really didnt exist? Maybe there was an anciet advanced civilization, and the stories of Atlantis are like half true mixed with a story line to explain why the civilization ended.

-- Lt. Alexander (M4socom@aol.com), August 19, 2004.

What happened man?

-- (a@b.c), August 20, 2004.

lol lol :_) n.i indeed

-- (aesfgsdfg@Sdfgsdfgs.sdfsdg), August 20, 2004.

I have to say that Heyerdahl has a point. From my vintage point in the Isle of the Blessed, in the western ocean, I can assure you that poeple have been sailing across the Atlantis long before Erik the Red. I mean, how could Plato have none of America otherwise?

Anyway, the old joker added a lot of crap to the story, but he based it on facts. Funny how people have their view of Atlantis completely screwed up by now. One academic even called it another planet, LOL. Flying machines? C'mon, get your facts straight.

Look, the guy is onto something, we have set him up, and he actually wrote it. Now you go and buy that book at lindorm.com, so you can help spread the ancient knowledge before it disappears completely.

PS. My wife sends her regards.

-- Menelaos Atreusson (menelaos@paradise.net), September 07, 2004.


bullshit! and intolerant to guests and nigars in boston or th ol cuntry?

warm an welcuming me pussy! were the scum and dum fucks of yorope!

-- Shayne McShame (mcshame@yahoo.com), November 10, 2004.


what are you blubbering incoherently about mcFuck?!? Unwelcoming to guests? They are not guest, they are here to stay, guest pack up and leave when the stay is over. Niggers,romanian gypsies, chinks and even pakis are parasites, WE are the HOSTS buts not in the hotel accomodataion sense, we have become the host for parasites of every persuasion who want to travel to ireland and leech off our supposedly soaring economy.

All thats happend in Ireland is that a small % here have gotten very rich off the backs of others, then they invited all these low wage working dumbfucks and 'wetbacks'in here to exploit them and as a consequence exploit Irish workers whos jobs are being taken by these drones who work for less than nothing.

And speak only for yourself you semi literate unt, YOU may be scum and a dumbfuck no doubt but if thats your attitude to being Irish then FUCK OFF and change your nationality. How about a trip to the ivory coast for starters in you dont get rapped you might just get eaten by those savages.

-- mick (mick@t.that), November 10, 2004.

Everyone needs to read "The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-Lost Civilization", Antartica is Atlantis, there is no doubt in my mind at all; and I came to that conclusion well before reading the aforementioned book.

M http://phantasyrpg.com/main.php?view=9898

-- mlauzon (mlauzon@gmail.com), November 13, 2004.


Has anyone ever stopped to think that maybe Plato put forth the idea of Atlantis with no real knowledge of such a place. Maybe he wanted people to think some civilization had attained a perfection in spirituality that he thought others should envy, thus striving for their own enlightenment. Now I'm neither scientist nor archeologist, but both disciplines espout looking deeper than whats on the surface. ;)

-- YourFullName (whoc@res.com), December 07, 2004.

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