How is it possible every nation in the Antarctic treaty has held up their end of the deal? No oil exploration? Nothing? Seriously? Why does John Kerry keep going there? He may be a Globalist climate radical, but seriously? He's not a scientist! Why is every thing these people have done exactly like Nazis? Even down to medical experimentation?Where did those 43,000 german women who were shipped to Antarctica at the end of WWII go? Is it possible we are actually dealing with the 4th Reich? Did Nazis really escape to Antarctica? Why can't a plane traverse it? Why are all plane paths set to completely avoid it? Environmental reasons? For real? If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you! What is our reality? WHO or WHAT is in Antarctica?
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It might not have been the big island of Atlantis, but likely one of the 10 islands that Plato referred to. I don't think it's a stretch to say that the Sahara desert held several of these islands until the huge flood washed them away. Just look at the NW coast of Africa and notice the evidence for massive flooding from the west. There are striations all over the landscape that suggest floods ravaged the entire top half of Africa thousands of years ago. I think this is related to what Plato described.
Also, we learn that the earliest people to settle Egypt came from the west with skills necessary to build a civilization. After all, even Plato clearly said that the remnants of Atlantis laid where the Moorlands were in his time. The Moorlands are the lands of the Moors, or the region that now makes up NW Africa. It seems pretty clear to me.
I thought Plato said Atlantis was just past the straight of Gibraltar?
He said "beyond the pillars of Heracles (Hercules)"...yet everyone insists that he meant due west into the Atlantic Ocean. In my opinion, beyond could mean NW, W, SW, or any combination of those.
From Plato’s Critias -
“Now first of all we must recall the fact that 9000 is the sum of years since the war occurred (9,600 BC/11,600 years BP), as is recorded, between the dwellers beyond the pillars of Heracles and all that dwelt within them."
Poseidon “begat five pairs of twin sons and reared them up; and when he had divided all the island of Atlantis into ten portions, he assigned to the first-born of the eldest sons his mother’s dwelling and the allotment surrounding it, which was the largest and best; and him he appointed to be king over the rest, and the others to be rulers, granting to each the rule over many men and a large tract of country. And to all of them he gave names, giving to him that was eldest and king the name after which the whole island was called and the sea spoken of as the Atlantic, because the first king who then reigned had the name of Atlas.”
"So all these, themselves and their descendants, dwelt for many generations bearing rule over many other islands throughout the sea, and holding sway besides, as was previously stated, over the Mediterranean peoples as far as Egypt and Tuscany.”
From Plato’s Timaeus -
"The Egyptian priests explain that the ‘myth’ of Phaethon, son of Helios, driving his father’s chariot too close to the sun and burning up the earth, was no myth at all. “That story, as it is told, has the fashion of a legend, but the truth of it lies in the occurrence of a shifting of the bodies in the heavens which move round the earth, and a destruction of the things on the earth by fierce fire, which recurs at long intervals."
Even Herodotus mentions this in his famous "Histories" (450 BC/150 years after Solon learned of Atlantis and roughly 100 years before Plato famously wrote it down again) – After naming off several ‘tribes’ that span from Egypt to Mauritania, Herodotus eventually gets to the last of these people, the Atlantes. Right after describing the salt mountain called Atlas he says,
“The people is called Atlantes after the mountain. It is said that they neither eat anything that has life nor have any dreams.” And, “As far as this people, the Atlantes, I can tell the names of all who live on this brow; but from them onwards I can do so no more. But the brow goes on as far as the Pillars of Heracles and beyond them.”
Seems like the name "Atlantis" necessarily implies that it was somehow linked to the Atlantic Ocean.
What about the area of the Canary Islands, or anything off the coast of Africa?
Have those areas been explored?
It doesn't imply anything. Plato literally said that Atlantis was named for the Atlantic Ocean which it bordered. Mercator said it was named for the first king of Libya, Atlas. Interesting enough, you'll find several variations of that word all over NW Africa. The Atlas Mountains, for example, are likely named for the same thing, as is the ancient town of Atar.
This entire area is called the Adrar Region, and the Adrar Plateau is where the main settlements are today, right next to the famous Richat Structure in Mauritania. And just for fun, Mauritania was the last country on earth to abolish slavery, in 1981. That just gives me more reason to think the people there and their ancestors were actually descended from Atlanteans. How do you keep a people from knowing their true history? Just keep them enslaved for 10,000 years or so.