British Isles
A number of areas within both the British Isles have been caimed as the original site of Atlantis.
Paul Dunbavin, in his book Atlantis of the West: The Case For Britain’s Drowned Megalithic Civilization, argues that the smaller islands and, Great Britain and Ireland was, at one time, a single island named Atlantis. He argues that the Neolithic civilization at the time was partially drowned by the rising sea levels caused by change in the earth’s axis after a comet struck the earth around 3100 BC.
Similarly, Swedish geographer Dr. Ulf Erlingssoned in the book Atlantis from a Geographer’s Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land (2004) hpothesizes that the empire of Atlantis refers to the Neolithic Megalithic tomb culture and deduced that the island of Atlantis was in fact Ireland and that the similarities in both size and landscape were found to be statistically significant. Based on this theory, speculation was made that the capital of Atlantis could be connected with Newgrange, Knowth, and Tara, Ireland.
As regards the sinking of Atlantis, it was suggested that it is a memory from another time and place, notably the Dogger Bank area. It was an island that sank in the North Sea about 6100 BCE. While the world sea level rose gradually as the Ice Age ice sheets melted, there was a sudden sea level rise at this time due to the final drainage of Lake Agassiz. At about the same time a tsunami from the Storegga Slide is believed to have devastated the island in the manner described by Plato.
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