Atlantis Continent Location hypotheses
Since Donnelly's day, there have been many areas proposed for Atlantis, to the place where the name has turned into a conventional idea, separated from the points of interest of Plato's record. A significant number of the proposed destinations share a portion of the attributes of the Atlantis story (water, disastrous end, important time-frame), however none has been shown to be a genuine recorded Atlantis.
In or close to the Mediterranean Sea
Satellite picture of the islands of Santorini. This area is one of many destinations suspected to have been the area of Atlantis Continent.
The majority of the generally proposed areas are in or close to the Mediterranean Sea: islands like Sardinia, Crete and Santorini, Sicily, Cyprus, and Malta; land-based urban communities or states like Troy, Tartessos, and Tantalus (in the territory of Manisa), Turkey; Israel-Sinai or Canaan;[citation needed] and northwestern Africa. The Thera ejection, dated to the seventeenth or sixteenth century BC, caused a huge wave that specialists estimate crushed the Minoan development on the close by island of Crete, further persuading some to think that this might have been the calamity that enlivened the story. A. G. Galanopoulos contended that the time scale has been twisted by a blunder in interpretation, presumably from Egyptian into Greek, which created "thousands" rather than "hundreds"; this equivalent mistake would rescale Plato's Kingdom of Atlantis to the size of Crete, while leaving the city the size of the pit on Thera; 900 years before Solon would be the fifteenth century BC. In the space of the Black Sea the accompanying areas have been proposed: Bosporus and Ancomah (an amazing spot close to Trabzon). The Sea of Azov was proposed in 2003.
In the Atlantic Ocean
The area of Atlantis Continent in the Atlantic Ocean has specific allure given the firmly related names. Mainstream society regularly puts Atlantis there, propagating the first Platonic setting. A few theories place the indented island in northern Europe, remembering Doggerland for the North Sea, and Sweden (by Olof Rudbeck in Atland, 1672-1702). Some have proposed the Celtic Shelf and Andalusia as potential areas, and that there is a connection to Ireland. The Canary Islands have additionally been distinguished as a potential area, west of the Straits of Gibraltar yet in closeness to the Mediterranean Sea. Different islands or island bunches in the Atlantic were additionally distinguished as potential areas, eminently the Azores. Anyway definite topographical investigations of the Canary Islands, the Azores, and the sea base encompassing them observed a total absence of any proof for the devastating subsidence of these islands whenever during their reality and a total absence of any proof that the sea base encompassing them was at any point dry land whenever previously. The lowered island of Spartel close to the Strait of Gibraltar has additionally been recommended.
Different areas
Caribbean areas like Batabano Bay[42] south of Cuba, the Bahamas, and the Bermuda Triangle have been proposed as locales of Atlantis Continent.
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