‘Ireland is lost island of Atlantis’

Atlantis, the legendary island-nation over whose existence controversy has raged for thousands of years, was actually Ireland, according to ...

Atlantis, the legendary island-nation over whose existence controversy has raged for thousands of years, was actually Ireland, according to a new theory by a Swedish scientist.

Atlantis, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote in 360 BC, was an island in the Atlantic Ocean where an advanced civilisation developed 11,500 years ago until it was hit by a natural disaster and sank.

Geographer Ulf Erlingsson, whose book — Atlantis from a Geographer’s Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land — explaining his theory will be published next month, says the measurements and geography, of Atlantis as described by Plato match Ireland almost exactly. ‘‘I am amazed no one has come up with this before,’’ he said.

‘‘Like Atlantis, Ireland is 300 miles long, 200 miles wide. I’ve looked at geographical data from the rest of the world and of the 50 largest islands there is only one that has a plain in the middle — Ireland.’’ —(Reuters)

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