Atlantis Beneath the Ice: The Fate of the Lost Continent [Paperback]

Imagination has been brought to bear on the subject matter, however, in a surprisingly sensible way: instead of viewing the written historical 'evidence' provided by Plato with present day eyes, they have managed to conduct such comprehensive research that they are able to present 'the facts' of the writing as they would have been originally seen by the peoples of 'The World' who read it *at the time it was written*, which gives an entirely different view of the clues given to the location of Atlantis.

Atlantis was placed in the Atlantic Ocean, beyond the Pillars of Heracles. Simple enough. Except that location to us, *now* is severely limited in comparison to where it had to possibility of being at the time the evidence first came to light (in the time of the Greek, Solon, c. 638-559 B.C.) At that time the 'World was thought to be a circularish island in the midst of a vast ocean. The Pillars of Heracles, at the Western end of the Mediterranean Sea was considered to be the furthest reaches of the known world. The 'Atlantic' ocean was the entire ocean, not the part of it that is named N.Atlantic and S.Atlantic now.

This is just one point among many and in conjunction with the evidence of the vastly devastating Earth Crust Displacements, I found the research and conclusions drawn from it, compelling and thought-provoking.

Whether you believe or not, this book is definitely worth the read.

The common assumption is that Antarctica has been under ice for millons of years and therefore the idea that people might have once lived on this island continent is absurd. But a little thought on the matter sheds doubt on this assumption. We know that every place on the earth's surface has a corresponding spot on the opposite side of the globe. The North Pole is on the opposite side of the globe to the South Pole. New Zealand is almost on the opposite side of the globe to the U.K. There is even an island off the south coast of New Zealand called "Antiopodes" which is very near to being opposite to London. In each case, the climate is similar - New Zealand is temperate and so is England. We don't find cases where one area is polar and the opposite side of the globe is temperate. Lesser Antarctica (the size of Western Europe) is on the opposite side of the globe to Alaska, Siberia, Canada's Yukon and the former land bridge known as 'Beringa.' Extensive scientific studies of these regions in the far north demonstrate the existence of a wide variety of animals that lived there before 9,600 B.C. These include not only the famous mammoths but also antelope, deer, saber-toothed tigers and lions. These animals lived in what today is a polar region. It follows then that people could have lived on the opposite side of the planet to this region.

To explain how the climate changed, how the ice sheets were formed, the sudden rise of agriculture, massive extinctions, and the ancient maps from the ice age, we use the theory of earth crust displacement as developed by Charles Hapgood. We corresponded with Hapgood for the last five years of his life (he died in late 1982) and we received his support for our advancements of his theory. Having read the nearly 200 pages of correspondence between Hapgood and Albert Einstein we understand why Einstein was so enthusiastic about the earth crust displacement theory.

It is impossible in a short review like this to list all the reasons why we believe that Antarctica was Atlantis before the last displacement. We have assembled numerous myths from around the world about an island paradise that was destroyed by a great flood. We believe that these lost island paradise myths are a distant echo from Atlantis.

We are perfectly serious in our desire to see our theory tested with an expedition to Antarctica to uncover what yet might remain of a once advanced civilisation that perished WHEN THE SKY FELL.