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Antarctica, like Libya and Asia, is slightly larger than the US. I have sep- arated Lesser Antarctica from Greater Antarctica (see figure 4) because I want to treat these areas separately later on. The mere fact that Plato tells us that the Earth con- tains a vast island continent the size of Antarctica is amaz- ing in itself. He goes on to give us a most interesting clue. He says that the whole island- continent is high A itarctica above sea-level. And this is true J ( S()() eet about...Antarctica! a As you can see from figure 5, Antarctica is by far the highest-altitude continent on our — planet. The Egyptian priest spoke to Solon about Atlantis in terms he could understand. He passed on the Australia account as an Atlantean would who was describing his home from the shores of the lost continent before its destruction around 9,600 BC. In figure 6 we see the world as it would have looked from Atlantis. The ocean level is lower (as it was nearly 12,000 years ago), joining England to Europe and Japan to Asia. Lesser Antarctica is depicted in its former ice-free state. Notice the accompanying islands. Here are Plato's words: ..island outside the channel which your countrymen tell me you call the 'Pillars of Heracles’. This island was larger than 25 Asia 3.200Feet % Nerth America Mediterranean Sea from the outer ocean. The Pillars of Heracles were the limit of the known world to the Greeks of Solon's time. Land which lay outside this channel was unknown to them. lato describes Atlantis as a mountainous, high-altitude island larger than Libya and Asia combined. That would make it slightly larger than the lower forty-eight American states. as ~~. i, ie lant a=. oo \ eo Libya 44 - NEXUS APRIL - MAY 1998