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09/12/07

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Atlantis In The Arctic?

Seems unlikely, yet there is a tradition that tells that the great lost continent of Atlantis is located in of all places the Arctic!

Plato's lost island kingdom pops up in Arctic waters in theosophical thought. In ancients times it is said that the First Root Race - an ethereal, invisible "fire mist" people lived near the North Pole. This was at a time when its climate was much less severe. W. Scott-Elliot, the English theosophist identified the sacred land of the First Root Race with the polar region and named it "Polaria."

In the 16th century, Gerardus Mercator fixed Atlantis in the Arctic on one of his maps, as did Abraham Ortelius on his world map of 1570. Later writers to envision an Arctic Atlantis include W.F Warren, Herman F. Wirth, Rudolf Gorsleben, and Siegried Kadner.

In Richard Hatfield's novel Geyserland (1908) the Atlanteans live a blissful life of pure communism at the North Pole!

Sources:

Colombo's Book Of Marvels, By John Robert Colombo

Lost Continents, by L. Sprague

Fads, and Fallacies In The Name of Science, by Martin Gardner

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