2006-07-08 15:42:26 · 13 answers · asked by bruserdog 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Atlantis is most commonly believed to exist in the Atlantic Ocean, due to the name, but I have a theory that Atlantis is located in the Pacific, somewhere off the coast of Japan.
The advance cultures and isolationist beliefs from there discovery with Europe suggest that they knew something. Also, we don't look out there, but we still see advances in Japan, and a similarity between descriptions from Japan and Atlantis. And volcano's and Tummies are more common in Japan then Europe and the Atlantic Ocean.
I can't back this up with geological facts, But it does work if you put the pieces together and ignore common belief.
P.S: Sorry about the poor spelling
2006-07-08 15:50:30 · answer #1 · answered by theaterhanz 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The logical answer is Crete.
About 1000 BC there was a huge (HUGE!) volcanic explosion (Thera, on Crete) that shook the heck out of the eastern Mediterranean, destroyed Cretan civilization, and wrecked much of the surrounding countries.
It has been blamed for things like the plagues of Egypt during the Exodus (Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt) where dusty ash would rain down like blood, the environmental damage would cause plagues and locust swarms, etc.
That area of the Mediterranean had a lot sea-going trade, since there were a lot of islands around Greece and Turkey, and the sea was not so big as to be too far to sail across. Everyone would have been affected by the explosion. Much later, they would have sailed back to Crete, where the coastine had changed and huge areas had been buried by ash or sunk into the sea.
Hence the legend, passed on by word of mouth for almost 1000 years until the classical Greeks wrote it down, about a land that had disappeared, sank into the sea. With each telling it probably got more grand and more fantastic and so much further away.
2006-07-09 00:35:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Atlantis is located in the Bermuda Triangle.
2006-07-08 23:27:54 · answer #3 · answered by Andreas S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Between Japan and Hawaii. Closer to Japan than Hawaii.
2006-07-08 22:47:44 · answer #4 · answered by dudezoid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are a chain of islands off the coast of africa that just sunk into the sea a few thousand(a very short time in geology) ago
2006-07-08 22:46:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Aegean.
2006-07-08 22:45:56 · answer #6 · answered by miami_2017 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Somewhere below the ocean
2006-07-08 22:51:57 · answer #7 · answered by MJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right under the water mark the Bemuda at ATLANTIC OCEAN locating right now if it is existed.
2006-07-08 22:47:05 · answer #8 · answered by Duke 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try reading all the info you can find on ' the flower of life'
2006-07-08 23:43:05 · answer #9 · answered by az geologist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the ocean
2006-07-08 22:46:30 · answer #10 · answered by Pete the koala 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋