Notice how the "north-is-up" perspective 
causes the oceans to appear as distinctive 
bodies of water. 

The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans seem 
to be entirely separate bodies of water. 

This is a map that we can easily recognize.  It conforms to what we all have 
learned in school.   Now I'd like to show you a south-is-up map of the world.  Suddenly our schooling takes a vacation. 

Atlantis was in the "Real Ocean." 
The Mediterranean Sea is merely a bay of the "Real Ocean". 

Plato's ancestor, Solon received the legend of Atlantis from a priest in Egypt.  

Libya = North Africa

Asia = the Middle East.

The red dot between Libya and Europe was called the "Pillars of Heracles", what we know today as "the Strait of Gibraltar".  It had a second meaning to the ancient Greeks which is ignored in almost all theories of Atlantis.  It meant 'the limit of the known world'. Let's now read Plato's legend of Atlantis. 

 
The Atlantean Worldview - color-coded.

The ocean level at 9,600 B.C. - when Atlantis perished - was lower than today renduring much of today's continental shelf as land (e.g. the UK was a part of Europe) which flooded at the close the Ice Age.
 

The island of Atlantis was "... larger than Libya and Asia combined; from it there was passage for the sea-farers of those times to reach the other islands, and from them the whole opposite continent which surrounds what can truly be called the ocean. For these regions that lie within the strait we were talking about seem to be but a bay having a narrow entrance; but the other ocean is the real ocean and the land which entirely surrounds it may with fullest truth and fitness be named a continent."  Plato Timaeus

Every search for Atlantis must explain these words. 

 
Below we render Plato's account  using 'modern' & 
'north is up' 
terminology.

Atlantis was an island continent larger than North Africa and the Middle East combined. Before 9,600 B.C. , Atlantean sailors leaving mainland Atlantis would encounter islands (now under ice) that lay between it and the rest of the world's continents which surround the World Ocean.  The Mediterrean Sea is really just a bay of the World Ocean having a narrow entrance; but the ocean beyond it is the Real Ocean.  The land which surrounds the World Ocean is a continent in the geographic sense of the word (large continuous land mass).

Plato is not the only source that makes Antarctica the lost continent. 
There is an Egyptian map of Atlantis

In 1665, the German Jesuit priest, Athanasius Kircher, published Mundus Subterraneus,  a massive book which included a reproduction of an ancient Egyptian map of Atlantis.

The label in Latin translates: "Site of Atlantis, now beneath the sea,
according to the beliefs of the Egyptians and the description of Plato."

The compass has North pointing down.  
Kircher retained the Egyptian notion that South was 'up'. 
To see how he interpreted this map we must turn it up-side-down. 

We have turned Kircher's map up-side-down to arrive at our familiar 'north-is-up' perspective.

Kircher wrongly believed Atlantis was an island in the North Atlantic Ocean between Spain and Africa on our right and America on the left.  

In 1665, when this map was first published, Antarctica had not been discovered and it wasn't until 1818 that Europeans first landed on the frozen island continent. 

Today we can compare Kircher's map of Atlantis with 
a modern geophysical globe with South "up." 

compared to 
 

a modern geophysical globe showing Antarctica without 
its ice and with south in the "up" position. 

South America is on the right.

The present shape of ice-free Antarctica as depicted in this modern view is based upon the current ocean level, not that of 9,600 B.C. 

Atlantis did not actually sink beneath the waves.  Instead, as the old ice caps melted, the ocean level rose, covering parts of the continent.

Further distortions in our modern map, compared to Kircher's, are a result of the weight of today's Antarctic Ice Sheet. This immense blanket of snow and ice depressed parts of the continent, causing more and more land to fall below ocean level.

We believe that Kircher's Egyptian map of Atlantis represents in size, shape, scale and position an ice-free Antarctica. So what happened? 
How did Atlantis become Antarctica? 

The inner core is extremely heavy like a metal ball. 

The outer core is fluid but still very dense.

The mantle is hard like solid rock.

The crust includes the continents and the ocean basins.

It rests upon a mobile layer know as the asthenosphere.

Atlantis was destroyed when
the entire outer shell of the earth 
displaced over the asthenosphere. 

This is called an 'earth crust displacement' 
a theory endorsed by Albert Einstein.  (Einstein-Hapgood Papers)

It plays havoc with our planet's climate. 

The former and current position of the Arctic Circle are shown as overlapping circles in the center of the map.  The current and former Tropic of Cancer latitudes mark off the large arcs. 

The Inter-Polar zone:  this area contains the most ice in the northern hemisphere.

The Paleo-Polar zone: the Great Lakes are a remnant of Ice Age America. 

The Neo-Polar zone: millions of temperate zone animals (including mammoths, giant deer, cave hyena, and cave lions) died out in Siberia, Alaska, Beringia. 

The Neo-Temperate zone: the first five civilisation emerged (Sumer, Egypt, Crete, India and China). 

The Neo-Tropical zone:  Olmec civilisation.  Maize was domesticated.

The earth crust displacment theory 
makes sense of climatic change worldwide. 

The Inter-Polar zone: contains the most ice in the world.   It is antipodal (opposite side of the globe) to the Greenland Ice Sheet.

The Paleo-Polar zone: melting ice. It is antipodal to Ice Age America.

The Neo-Polar zone: Atlantis perished. Contains shallowest ice sheet yet receives the most annual snowfall.  It is antipodal to Alaska, Siberia and Beringia.

In North America the Haida in British Columbia have a myth of sky supporter who sits in a canoe upon the ocean with a pillar extending to the heavens.  If he should loose his grip the world will end as the sky falls bringing a flood.

The Utes of Utah tell of a time when the Sun's tears brought a flood.

The Chato of California tell of a time when the sky fell bringing a flood.

The A'a'tam (Pima) of Arizona believed in a giant grey spider who spun a great web to keep the sky secure and to prevent the earth from trembling.

In South America the Ipurinas of Brazil believed that the flood was caused when the Sun tipped over released hot water over the earth.

The Araucanians of Chile feared that an eclipse of the Sun was a warning of a coming flood that would end the world.

In Europe the Celts did not fear earthquakes or floods but they feared the day when the sky would fall ending the world.

In Germanic lore an inspired seeress spoke a time in the future when the Sun will turn black, the earth will sink into the sea and the stars will whirl down from the sky.  That will be the end-of-the-world.

In Russia the Mari conceived of the earth as resting on the horns of a bull who in turn stood on the back of a gigantic submerged crab.   They feared a time when the bull's horn would break plunging the earth through the sky until it fell into the ocean.  That would be the end-of-the-world.

Seen from the ground the sky-sun-stars seem to fall when the earth's crust shifts.   The flood is a combination of tidal waves and rising ocean levels as the old ice sheets melt. 

Each myth, in its own way, retells the events of the last earth crust displacement. 

And there are tales of a lost island paradise which perished in the flood. 

Okanagan.
                  Cherokee.
    Aztec.

        Aymara.
 
 
 

                        Sumer.
            Vedic.
Japan.
 

This island was called Samah-tumi-whoo-lah
and there came a time when the people saw "that their island was about to sink" so the escaped across the ocean to their new land (British Columbia and Washington).

They believed that in the future the "...lakes will melt the foundations of the world, and the rivers will cut the world loose.   Then it will float as the island did many suns and snows ago.  That will be the end of the world."  

"The earth is a great island floating in a sea of water, and suspended at each of the four cardinal points by a cord hanging down from the sky vault, which is of solid rock.  When the world grows old and worn out, the people will die and the cords will break and let the earth sink into the ocean, and all with be water again." Note: 'again.'

An clue to the location of the 'great island' reads:

"There is another world under this, and it like ours in everything - animals, plants, and people - save the seasons are different."

They describe Aztlan as "located beyond the waters, or surrounded by waters; and the first stage of the migration is said to have been made by boat."

Our ancestors came from  a great white moutainous island in the middle of the ocean. This island sank at the time of the Flood destroying its cities and forcing evacation from the island by boats/canoes.