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rubberduck3y6 In reply to MillerTheCockroach [2022-09-03 06:22:06 +0000 UTC]

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rubberduck3y6 In reply to Laharl234 [2010-03-31 16:48:04 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, Zealandia's a proper continent - the map probably shows it's maximum extent.

The plateau in the Indian Ocean you're thinking off could be the Kerguelen Plateau, which I used for my Lemuria map, or the Mascarene Plateau off the coast of Africa, which arches round from the Seychelles to Mauritius.

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Laharl234 In reply to rubberduck3y6 [2010-03-31 17:06:46 +0000 UTC]

It would be the Kerguelen Plateau. I think only Atlantis doesn't have a real continent in the same ocean where it was supposed to be. Though Thera seems like it was the real Atlantis, but where's the fun in that for fantasy and science fiction, am I right?

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KantiaCartography In reply to Laharl234 [2014-03-12 00:06:56 +0000 UTC]

*Correction

They have evidence that the Azores and the rest of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge did rise above sea level, possibly from of a slow moving "wave of molten rock" that caused the underwater mountain range to rise thousands of of feet for a few million years. In that time, it had rivers, valleys, flora, and fauna, along with evidence that earthquakes and volcanic eruptions caused it to sink to the ocean floor. 

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rubberduck3y6 In reply to Laharl234 [2010-03-31 17:30:13 +0000 UTC]

Exactly

Unfortunately the Kerguelen Plateau's too far south for lemurs to actually live there though!

I've heard that Thera might've been the inspiration for Atlantis as well but it's a bit small to be a lost 'continent', hence I used the Mid-Atlantic Ridge as the base for my Atlantis.

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Laharl234 In reply to rubberduck3y6 [2010-03-31 18:38:14 +0000 UTC]

Well Thera together with the rest of the Minoan Empire could together count as Atlantis. It'd be big enough and it was a very advanced civilization for its time and Knossos and Thera, two of its main cities, were destroyed all at once by Thera's eruption. But you're right it's too small for fictional purposes.

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StainedGlassJesus In reply to Laharl234 [2011-04-04 23:09:29 +0000 UTC]

just a little tidbit of info here, but Atlantis was said to have disappeared about 12,000 years ago. That would have been about 10,000 BC. That's about when the Ice Age is said to have ended. And of course, when there's more ice, the sea level is lower. Logic dictates that at the very least, the Azores Islands had to have been substantially bigger during the Ice Age, and that could possibly have been Atlantis.

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TenoreRobusto In reply to StainedGlassJesus [2013-07-18 03:46:04 +0000 UTC]

My understanding is that there's quite a bit of discrepancy and disagreement over how long ago Plato's "Atantis" actually existed.  Something to do with difficulty translating from an Egyptian number system to a Greek one, even up to a difference in a order of magnitude.  I don't have the information in front of me, but I'd be happy to look for it.

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