Atlantis:   A New Perspective

The legend of Atlantis was passed to us through Plato but had its origins much earlier than that. Over the centuries enthusiasts and optimists have adopted (and adapted!) the legend as their own.

Fortunately modern scholars have access to the wonders of the Internet and with it, to tools that their predecessors could only dream about. Those tools have helped us to realise what really happened to Atlantis.

If you were to visit the remarkable web site, Dig to the Other Side you would find an interactive map that allows you to pinpoint any place on Earth and see where you would end up if you dug a hole straight through to the other side. Try it. Just CLICK HERE to visit them, but you'll have to use your browser to come back.

While you're there you might try clicking around the Australian coastline to see where it would appear if you could push it straight through the Earth's core. Careful, you could get your toes wet. It would be completely contained within the Atlantic.

Think about it:   an island continent in the Atlantic Ocean . . . it could only be Atlantis!

Of course, sceptics will tell you that Australia lies between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, so it couldn't possibly be Atlantis. If it had ever been in the Atlantic, how did it reach it's current location?

Easy!   Continental drift.

Little by little Atlantis made its way southward, around Cape Horn, and eventually settled in its present location beneath the Southern Cross.

Those people who think such a journey would have taken too long are forgetting something very obvious. Back in those days the continental drift would have embodied a great deal of energy from the fairly recent bit bang, and was able to move much faster than now.

Remember, you heard it here first. Australia is not only Tomorrowland, it's also Atlantis.

Was there really an Atlantis? Dr Charles Pellegrino thinks so.

Among his qualifications Pellegrino has been known to work simultaneously in crustaceology, paleontology, preliminary design of advanced rocket systems, and marine archaeology. He was also involved in salvaging the Titanic. There's lots more than that, but let's not overdo it.

In his extraordinary book Unearthing Atlantis, Pellegrino examines the archaeological digs at the island of Hera, near Crete. He doesn't pretend that all the excesses attributed by the "true believers" happened, but he reveals a civilisation that was certainly centuries ahead of the rest of the world. Hera was lost to a volcanic eruption that saw parts of it disappear into the Aegean. The eruption was, at that time, unique; its nature wasn't understood until Mount St. Helens erupted in the 1980s

You can learn more about this remarkable man and his work by visiting Dr Charles Pellegrino's Official Website.

Of course, I don't think he had much to say about Australia and continental drift.

Maps courtesy of www.theodora.com/maps used with permission. (Theodora have a wonderful range of maps which you should see, but don't hold them responsible for relocating Australia to the Atlantic.)