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this day. 1973 saw us uncover more extensive lettering sites at For example, Atlantis is by no means the only submerged civili- other locations across the Blue Mountains, while in 1974 we sation. Underwater ruins of ancient cities have been located off found other symbols near Gosford, north of Sydney. the Bay of Bengal, the north coast of Papua New Guinea, Torres The 1970s and 1980s would see us locate a great number of Strait, the Cook Islands, off Tonga, New Zealand's north island, these symbols at numerous sites across New South Wales and also _and also Australia. ’ in southern and far northern Queensland where another set was And then there are the enigmatic remains on Easter Island with discovered near Rockhampton in 1992. mysterious roads that lead out into the sea, presumably to now- By 1974 we had gathered enough script examples to realise | submerged cities of a much larger prediluvian land mass. these formed the written language of this vanished race of ser- The whole Polynesian race extending from Hawaii to New penv/eagle worshippers. This led me to attempt the translation of | Zealand preserves traditions of the "great land to the south” which, the many inscriptions which consist of a mixture of symbols, to the Maoris, was located directly to the west of New Zealand strokes and dots, somewhat reminiscent of a mixture of Middle and which, they said, was inhabited by a race of people who built Easter and Celtic scripts. in stone and were expert astronomers. As the Maoris themselves What has emerged from our joint Australia-wide investigation had only been resident in New Zealand since about 1,500 years since 1973 is far too voluminous to be adequately covered in this ago, and as the mysterious Australian civilisation had long van- chapter so I am able only to present the barest outline. ished before then, it is obvious that this tradition had been passed The mass of evidence gathered to date suggests that, thousands down to the Maoris by earlier inhabitants of New Zealand. “And it of years before the rise of the better-known civilisations of the is certain the Maoris knew exactly where Australia was, as from Near and Middle East, Australia was home to a highly advanced —_ discoveries of Maori stone tools and other traces of their ancient race of megalith-building people who were in possession of a writ- _landfalls on Australia's east coast. ten language. The various South Sea islanders and the Maoris claim their Let us now examine more of this evidence. lands all once had closer contacts with Australia, and that there Scattered around Sydney's western suburbs over a wide area of _ was a great land-shelf linking all the islands with New Guinea and this now largely built-up region there were (or still are) often Australia in the times of their ancestors. This collection of tradi- large, man-made earthen mounds and even hills whose outlines, _ tions certainly suggests that the scientists could be wrong in their when mapped, appear to resemble the outlines of serpents, other assumption that New Zealand and the Melanesian region were animals and even circles. Such formations have been reported to _ never joined together in the time of early man. me Australia-wide and are reminiscent of similar structures found Thus the traditions of sunken lands and cultural centres of the across Europe and Asia. native populations of this whole region all fit in with various Traces of lost civilisations lie scattered throughout the world. _ traces of submerged ruins off the eastern Australian coast and in With the notable exception of Atlantis, fragmentary remains of Torres Strait. Of all these, the Maori tradition of the lost land of unknown civilisations of the past have come to light in the most | Whaingaroa, and the sunken megalithic structures of Torres Strait surprising places. and Queensland spring to mind. The three granite boulders forming a triangle, situated to the north-west of a stone circle alignment on a property near Bathurst, NSW. The entire 10-square-mile site may have been one great open-air astronomical observatory. 32 ¢ NEXUS AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1995