As we all know, the Mid Atlantic Ridge is an underwater mountainous ridge in the Mid Atlantic (No surprises so far) which includes some regions above water even today (Iceland and the Azores). Now Having looked at maps of ancient atlantis they seem to point out a rather large island in the mid atlantic. Plato describes it as about 300 some miles in each direction (north south/ east west) and points out that a series of mountainous terrain divided the island roughly along its north south axis begining about 50 miles inland on each side.
Now having looked at the maps of the Mid Atlantic range this is actually quite reasonable. There is a significant stretch of these mountains at roughly the same latitudes as the mediterranean/ north africa and the carribean gulf region. This land mass is quite large, and is only about 1000 feet below the surface (shocking eh?.) Now we know that Atlantis dissapeared roughly around 9600 BC (probably older as legends lose accuracy over time) and the ice age ended roughly at 11000 years ago (9000 BC give or take.) Given the accepted period and stretching backward (we can assume there was a very old civilisation already there) we're talking about the last ice age as our time frame. Now thankfully that ice age guarantees that over 400 of those feet of water was gone (thank you ice caps) This means that only 600 feet of water tops would be covering the land mass.
It's also quite possible for land masses to collapse after a while due to earthquakes/tsunami's ect. Visually I'd imagine similarities to the canary islands or azores in it's appearence.
I'd expect a north african or african looking people based on the geography. So I'm sure you'll all be pumped that Atlantis was probably "black".
Let's build and discuss this shit. There's big science to be considered, no one's really explored the ridge for ancient civilisations...
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