The presumed location of Atlantis has always provoked great interest
and debate. But where could this once great island have existed?
Slow drift.
If Atlantis had severed itself from the Yucatan peninsula (see this link) it would have drifted slowly westward across an ever widening
Atlantic. Together with the continent of Africa it would have steadily progressed on its pliant sima layer by a matter of inches each year. Eventually these inches became many many miles until finally
they added up to the width of an Ocean.
Azores Islands.
The favoured position for the eventual demise of Atlantis is often quoted as being close to the tiny Azores islands. These sunken volcanic islands bear forceful testimony to
an incredible natural disaster in ancient antiquity. Another point in favour of this setting is the geographical disparity between other islands around the Azores, and the not too distant African
mainland.
Madeira.
The island of Madeira is a notable example. This incredible island has a surprising landscape, neither African nor European, but more like a Central American state, with
plunging verdant ravines, and jagged peaks, stretching evocatively above low lying clouds. This incongruous landscape cannot easily be explained. The only real answer is that it constitutes a tiny
fragment of another continent that drifted thousands of miles from it's parent landmass around the Gulf of Mexico.
