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The greatest mass of an iceberg lies hidden unseen beneath the surface of the water.

Likewise, underlying the search for Atlantis are many deep unseen prejudices. Atlantis is a ‘where is here’ riddle. To unravel this riddle we need to be willing to challenge what we have been taught.

Below is a map showing our common perception of separate continents and oceans.

Below is a US Naval projection of the world centered on Antarctica.

From a southern perspective we see that our planet has only one ocean. The unity of the world’s “oceans” is central to the oldest account of Atlantis.

An Egyptian priest entrusted Plato’s ancestor, Solon, with the legend of Atlantis. In Solon’s time (c.600 B.C.) the words Libya and Asia had a different meaning as did the term – Pillars of Hercules.

The Greek worldview of 600 B.C.

At this time Libya referred to a landmass the size of present-day North Africa. Asia was the size of what we know as the Middle East.

The red dot (on the map) between Libya and Europe was called the Pillars of Heracles, today’s Strait of Gibraltar. It’s second meaning to the ancient Greeks is ignored in almost all theories of Atlantis. It meant ‘the limit of the known world’.

The Atlantean Worldview

The ocean level at 9,600 B.C. – when Atlantis perished – was lower than today. Below is a map showing the world before the Flood as seen from Antarctica. Also shown are the Greeks’ notion of Libya (yellow) and Asia (green). This area is approximately the size of Antarctica (red).

Plato wrote that the island of Atlantis was “… larger than Libya [yellow] and Asia [green] combined; from it [Atlantis - red] there was passage for the sea-farers of those times to reach the other islands, [tan – now under ice] and from them the whole opposite continent [white] which surrounds what can truly be called the ocean. For these regions [turquoise] that lie within the strait we were talking about seem to be but a bay having a narrow entrance; but the other ocean is the real ocean and the land which entirely surrounds [white] it may with fullest truth and fitness be named a continent.”  Plato Timaeus

Every search for Atlantis must explain these words. We submit that the map above accurately depicts Plato’s 2400 year old account of the location of Atlantis. This implies the existence of a long lost advanced civilization that possessed an accurate knowledge of our planet’s geography.

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Athanasius Kircher

In 1665, the German Jesuit priest, Athanasius Kircher, published Mundus Subterraneus, a massive book which included a reproduction of an ancient Egyptian map of Atlantis.

The Latin label translates: “Site of Atlantis, now beneath the sea, according to the beliefs of the Egyptians and the description of Plato.”

Kircher mistakenly believed Atlantis was an island in the North Atlantic Ocean.

In 1665, when this map was first published, Antarctica had not been discovered.

Below is Kircher’s Egyptian map of Atlantis compared to a modern geophysical globe showing Antarctica without its ice and with south in the “up” position.

The present shape of ice-free Antarctica as depicted in this modern view is based upon the current ocean level, not that of 9600 B.C.

Atlantis did not actually sink beneath the waves. Instead, as the old ice caps melted, the ocean level rose, covering parts of the continent.

Further distortions in our modern map, compared to Kircher’s, are a result of the massive weight of today’s Antarctic ice sheet which depressed parts of the continent, causing more and more land to fall below ocean level.

We believe that Kircher’s Egyptian map of Atlantis represents in size, shape, scale and position an ice-free Antarctica.

So what happened? How did Atlantis become Antarctica? Please see Earth Crust Displacement.

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In the Summer of 2009, a new expanded and updated edition was published as an eBook.

To read a FREE sample from the 2009 edition, follow this easy 2-step process:

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Excerpts from Chapter 1 reveal that Charles Hapgood persuaded President Eisenhower to order the State Department to hunt for a secret map, of great antiquity, that was once in the possession of Christopher Columbus.

Also available as a Kindle from Amazon.

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