Antarctica
The theory that Antarctica was Atlantis was particularly fashionable during the 1960s and 1970s, spurred on partly both by the isolation of the continent, H. P. Lovecraft’s novella At the Mountains of Madness and also the Piri Reis map, which purportedly shows Antarctica as it would be ice free, suggesting human knowledge of that period. Charles Berlitz, Erich Von Daniken and Peter Kolosimo have been amongst those popular authors who made this proposal.
More recently Rand & Rose Flem-Ath have proposed this in their book, “When the Sky Fell”. A geological theory known as “Earth crust displacement” forms the basis of their work.
This theory is particularly popular with Hollow Earthers, and can be seen as a mirror of the Hyperborean identification.
Charles Hapgood came up with a earth crust displacement theory. Hapgood’s theory says that earth outer crust is able to move upon the upper mantle layer rapidly upon a distance up to 2,000 miles. This would place Atlantis right in Antartica, not to say that Antartica and Atlantis were one and same island. It is to be noted that Albert Einstein was one of the only voice to answer Hapgood’s theory. Einstein wrote a preface for Hapgood’s book Earth’s shifting crust, published in 1958.
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