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If Plato's account was anything other than fiction, then his Atlantis has got to be in the general area of Cuba and the Caribbean. His account places it beyond the Pillars of Hercules (Gibralter) and in the Atlantic Ocean. The real problem with Plato is his time scale as he puts it more than 10,000 years before HIS time. We know of no civilisations that old. It will be interesting to see how this research developes and what time scale the underwater "city" reveals. How many layers?
More new "Atlantis" books will follow of course and from memory: Atlantis has been located in the Azores, coastal Spain, inland Peru, Antartica, Ireland, Malaysia, the Bahamas and there is even one guy who puts it at Old Oswestry hillfort in Shropshire! Perhaps I'll write a money spinning book and place it in the North Sea! The truth is that there were many flood legends and many Atlantisses because so many coastal habitations are now under water. Imagine a vertical difference in sea level of 50-100 meters and then consider how far out the coastal dry land would have extended on sloping continental shelves before the melting of the ice and consequent rise of sea levels.
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