Secret_History

202 The Secret History of the World
“navigable” also means, today, that on land there are sufficient radio direction or lit
indicators and, that once a ship is out of sight of land, he has gyros, or echo
sounders which, together with accurate charts means he can safely increment his
way forward avoiding shipwreck. So “Navigable“ on a deep ocean really means
instruments are on land and on the ships and that accurate charts exist (with
soundings) - all three. 111
Since Ignatius Donnelly, scholars have produced a veritable shipload of books
speculating on the location of Atlantis. I have a couple of shelves full of these
books, and the theories range from the destruction of the island of Santorini by the
eruption of Thera around 1600 BC 112 to Indonesia, to the Black Sea. More
recently, Rand and Rose Flem-Ath have proposed that Antarctica was the “island
of Atlantis” and that it “shifted” or “moved” South as a function of crustal
displacement.
Plato described Atlantis as an “island empire” that, “in a single day…
disappeared in the depths of the sea”. But he also tells us that this “island” was
bigger than Libya and Asia Minor combined. Right away we perceive that his
terms are a bit different from what we would use. We might think that his term
“island”, meant simply that this body of land was not connected to Eurasia or
Africa - that it was a distinct body of land surrounded by water - except for
something else he added: Plato also told us that Atlantis was “the way to other
islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent”.
This suggests to us an unusual land formation - an isthmus.
His expression that it “disappeared into the depths of the sea” may have
beenmeant to suggest that it was swept by vast tsunamis as the result of some
cataclysmic event. So, considering these clues - its vast size, the definition of the
term “navigable”, and the idea that “disappearing into the depths of the sea” very
likely meant swept by terrifying walls of water, let take a peek through the Pillars
of Hercules. What do we see? Well, we see the Americas. We see North and South
America connected by an isthmus. We also see a lot of little islands in the
Caribbean.
Another clue that Plato gives us is that Atlantis had a lot of elephants.
Something catastrophic happened to the large mammals roaming the world
during the Pleistocene Epoch. Woolly mammoths, mastodons, toxodons, sabretoothed
tigers, woolly rhinos, giant ground sloths, and many other large
Pleistocene animals are simply no longer with us. The fact is, more than 200
species of animals completely disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene
111 Matthew Walker, private correspondence with the author.
112 This approximate date is pretty well confirmed by Sturt Manning’s A Test of Time which is devoted
to the dating of the eruption of Thera which has been tree-ring calibrated.