Was Atlantis actually Ireland?

[Gabbal]

By Kevin Smith

 

Updated: 1:23 p.m. ET Aug. 6, 2004

 

DUBLIN, Ireland - 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.

 

Atlantis, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote in 360 B.C., was an island in the Atlantic Ocean where an advanced civilization developed 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.â€

 

Sinking of North Sea shoal

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

 

“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 predate the pyramids.

 

Could Plato have known?

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 (1,440 kilometers) west of the Portuguese coast, or in the Aegean Sea. Others locate it solely in Plato's imagination.

[RaMpAgE]

I don't think Atlantis was Ireland, they described Atlantis as an Continent Island.In My opinion i Think Atlantis was one of the Perished Nations Revealed in the Quran like the PEople of Ad , and that the Ancient Egpytians Twisted the Story when they told it too the Greeks. :cool:

[nuune]

who knows what the fact is, could be Ireland, but in dublin, people like to talk about Atlantis because of its similarities to ireland,

 

as the guy said, Ireland is mountanious country, i have seen most interesting mountains when i made a visit to some parts of Ireland apart from Dublin the capital