Plato's account of Atlantis places the lost continent in what he calls the "Real Ocean" and we can see what he meant in this US Naval projection of the world as seen from Antarctica. Notice how all the "oceans" that we know today: the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific are really one ocean. This is a geographic fact: a fact recorded in Plato's account of Atlantis. And Plato expands on this description to say that the Mediterranean Sea is merely a basin of the ocean, separated from it by a narrow channel.

From this perspective it is certainly accurate to say that the Mediterranean Sea is really a part of the World Ocean separated from it by a narrow entrance at the place we call the Strait of Gibraltar. Seen from Antarctica the rest of the continents form a ring around the "Real Ocean".

Here's Africa, Europe, western Asia, Australia, eastern Asia, which joins western North America (bottom right) and easteren North America (bottom left) and finally at the very bottom is South America pointing to Antarctica. Plato talks about the whole opposite continent, a phrase that makes sense once we view the world from Antarctica. This "whole opposite continent" has not been understood before. Most researchers into Atlantis treat it as gibberish or they imagine that it must refer to America.  It actually refers to all the continents other than Antarctica.    Next