The Azores as a Candidate Location for Atlantis
In my book Our Unknown Ancient Past I argue that Azores was part of Atlantis. I presented a lot of evidence, but now I would like to discuss some aspects in more details. The entire Azores Plateau, as we read in a Nature.com article discussing the Plateau's geology, covers an area of approximately 400.000 km 2 . The Azores Plateau has an almost triangular shape, but assuming, for simplicity reasons, that we are dealing with a circular area, that circle has a 632 km radius. This is remarkably close to the size of Atlantis provided by Plato. In the relative Wikipedia article you can see for yourself that according to Plato Atlantis was an island ~700 klm wide, mostly consisting of mountains on the northern part and along the shore, encompassing a long narrow plain on the south which stretched a distance of 3.000 stadia (555 klm) on one side and 2.000 stadia (370 klm) on the other. I myself have never been to the Azores, but nowadays, with the Internet, you can find so much in...