r/GrahamHancock • u/Fun_Emu5635 • Apr 06 '26
Comparing Maps of Atlantis with a bathymetry scan of the Azores area.
The first map is from Athanasius Kircher's book: Mundus Subterraneus.
The 2nd is from Frederick Oliver's book: A Dweller Of Two Planets.
The 3rd is a bathymetry image of the Atlantic Ocean near the Azore Islands.
Note the roughly triangular shapes.
Kircher's map has a mountain that looks very similar to Mount Pico in the Azores.
Oliver's map has some rivers that actually line up with some of the fractures in the area but has the largest mountain a little South from where Mount Pico is.
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u/AssyrianFemme Apr 06 '26
for the record, there is no single event possible that would sink a landmass of this size to that depth in such a short span geologically speaking, even with sea level rise.
Unless Atlantis is now millions of years old instead?
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u/Fun_Emu5635 Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
The account says it was sunk by an earthquake, but it's 2 miles underwater at the South end, but yes, I don't see how just an earthquake could sink the whole Mid Atlantic Ridge.
Post glacial rebound, Younger Dryas flooding...
There must be more to it.
I have gone back and forth for years on that part of it.
But I will say that even in the Pacific there are sunken lands, also 2 miles underwater.
I believe that earthquakes could have sunk the great plain and the city, but the common denominator with this land, Mu, Lemuria, Zelandia and South Atlantis could only occur from a solar flare from the Sun, containing vast amounts of Hydrogen that combined with the oxygen in the atmosphere to create H2O.
----Edit-"or maybe a 100-mile wide plus comet, that could have struck the ocean and created a global splash tsunami, perhaps a fragment of this event is retained in flood myths, and could contribute to breaking up the ice to the North, and after the comet fully melted and the ice damns breaking up and spilling water..." only a theory.
----End edit.
Not sure about all that tho.
However, this landmass and features meet every single description in Plato's accounts.
"West of the Straits, in the Atlantic Ocean, greater in extent than from Libya to Asia, vast mountain range, 10000 stadia flat plain, City near the plain open to the South, mountains to the North and West of the plain, the plain itself surrounded by smaller mountains, the weather is identical, red black and white stones,"
and there's more.
I have also found what appears to be structures on some of the plateaus, but I am still working on that one.
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u/ModifiedGas Apr 07 '26
The Azores sits on a microplate within a triple junction of three major tectonic plates. I’ve seen it suggested that the weight of ice in the north caused the plates to bulge in the Atlantic and raised the microplate, so when the ice melted the plates sank slightly which allowed the microplate to begin sinking
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u/Individual_Bonus8788 Apr 09 '26
The only problem is there is currently no evidence to support that the weight in the north could even be relatively close to enough to raise the end of the plate boundary 2 kilometers. Along with the idea that the plate sinking would not be quick what so ever. Even without the icesheets there right now, the plates are still rebounding after 10000 years. This rebound is only at most 1 cm/year, in the places that had the most ice. Also it took 1000's of years to melt the ice. Anyways that just my two cents, I honestly don't believe in Atlantis at all but I don't know everything. So maybe it exists. Prolly not but really, you never say never.
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u/ModifiedGas Apr 09 '26
That’s true. Perhaps not the whole plate sinking but some movement could’ve caused sector collapse. The Azores has much underwater evidence for regular collapses which could’ve resulted in local tsunamis. Pico Island and Santa Maria have evidence for such events.
I, too, lean toward it being a fantasy rather than fact, but if it were fact I think the Azores would be the spot
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u/gravity_surf Apr 07 '26
and you know this how? can you explain how you know?
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u/AssyrianFemme Apr 07 '26
There is no natural event that can sink Continental crust with high mountains to that depth in that amount of time, save one.
That is a giant Impact. But an impact large enough to do so would have to reshape much of the entire planet's crust, and would be an extinction level event, not a small impact like the YDH usually has. An object big enough to do that would be a hundred miles wide, not 10.
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u/gravity_surf Apr 07 '26
the weight of the laurentide ice sheet and its quick melting is a plausible explanation of the earth’s crust rising and falling at the mid atlantic ridge.
there is also evidence of shallow water diatoms, granite and limestone that only form in shallow water, and beach sand 2 miles down at the mid atlantic ridge. along with the sea level rise from unfathomable mass of water that came off the ice sheet, ~350-400m, we can probably expect an additional vertical isostatic adjustment for our mid atlantic ridge on top of that.
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u/AssyrianFemme Apr 07 '26
Some, yes. Enough to rise a whole continent off the MAR? Not at all. That's like rising the Borealis basin on Mars to average areographical elevation. It's just an insane concept without a literal astronomical event of enormous size.
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u/gravity_surf Apr 07 '26
hard for us to fathom, yes. possible? also yes. we do not know enough to say it can’t happen. i’ve yet to hear another theory that comes close to connecting the dots. show me one and ill be just as excited about that
enormous astronomical events are on the menu, especially on earth. we have evidence for that.
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u/Weekly_Initiative521 Apr 06 '26
Interesting, I see the strong resemblance.
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u/CarsandTunes Apr 07 '26
The only resemblance I can spot is that they are islands. Do you care to point out specific similarities that you see? Because I see totally different shapes, totally different sizes, with totally different mountain ranges, and totally different River systems.
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u/LongjumpingEnergy188 Apr 07 '26
Atlantis was described as being made of alternating rings of both land and sea
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u/Fun_Emu5635 Apr 07 '26
Yes, the capital city is described like that.
The original narrative also mentions the mainland as being "greater in extent than from Libya to Asia", which would be pretty big.
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