Feb 23 2009Yes!: Google Maps Spots Lost City Of Atlantis
That's right folks, you're looking at the lost city of Atlantis, buried under the ocean off the north-western coast of Africa (the country*).
This location is awfully close to one of the spots Plato, Legendary Smart Dude, had pinpointed as a possible resting place of Atlantis. In addition, the site is about the same size as Plato described.
Google claims that the lines are remnants of the sonar traces left by boats as they surveyed the area. Plus, Plato described Atlantis as being designed as a series of concentric circles, not a grid.
Now I hate to call Google a bunch of dirty liars, but that is clearly Atlantis. Haven't you ever heard that circles look square when viewed underwater? Yeah, it's called refraction. It's the same principal that makes a toot smell worse if you do it in the bathtub. Science, folks, you can't argue with that.
Atlantis Found on Google Earth, Official Explanation Is Dubious [gizmodo]
*Stop emailing me, I'm fully aware Africa is a continent.
Reader Comments
1. naas - February 23, 2009 3:00 PM
and that's where I'm hiding my drugs, time to move them!
2. dave - February 23, 2009 3:00 PM
first!
3. dave - February 23, 2009 3:01 PM
dammit!
you hide them there too!?
4. naas - February 23, 2009 3:02 PM
Yes, and for trying to firstard yourself I'm taking yours away
5. Poseiden - February 23, 2009 3:06 PM
Maybe now someone will show up to my next superbowl party?
6. Jim - February 23, 2009 3:07 PM
Does anybody actually do work here? This is OLD news. This site is routinely posting "news" that has already been filtered by six or seven websites.
7. Top Ten Guy - February 23, 2009 3:07 PM
Wohoo!
Top Ten!
Déjà vu?
8. naas - February 23, 2009 3:07 PM
@5 ha!
9. ZenoZTankof - February 23, 2009 3:07 PM
A toot? What the hell is a toot and why does it smell so bad?
10. ZenoZTankof - February 23, 2009 3:10 PM
oh a fart....
11. sullynick - February 23, 2009 3:10 PM
"Jim - February 23, 2009 3:07 PM
Does anybody actually do work here? This is OLD news. This site is routinely posting "news" that has already been filtered by six or seven websites."
-Shut up, f**ktard.
12. Poseidon - February 23, 2009 3:15 PM
How embarrassing, I just realized misspelt my own name...my bad.
13. catch22 - February 23, 2009 3:22 PM
now where is daisy... this is the most appropriate time to report a fake
14. Daisytard - February 23, 2009 3:28 PM
Uh this is obviously fake because the shadows, sonar shadows, are all wrong. This is like that movie never back down when jesse found out her dad left her as a baby and ran away to atlantis to meet some chick with a tail for a lower half of her body and could only get the sweet satisfaction that he never had to please a woman again.
15. Mr. Man - February 23, 2009 3:28 PM
@Jim
Fuk off
16. naas - February 23, 2009 3:48 PM
@12 well nobody's around to correct you about it until the next superbowl so you're ok for now.
17. Chuey "The Rock 'n' Roll" Midget - February 23, 2009 3:56 PM
If google could put this up . . . they should at least map where they dump the dead Decepticons into the Laurentian Abyss.
18. McFeely Smackup - February 23, 2009 3:58 PM
I'm going to just ask the obvious question here:
If that grid is Atlantis....what is the very similar looking grid just west of hte coast of Ireland? except that one is about 100X the size of "atlantis"
Anyone who claims this kind of thing doesn't appear anywhere else didn't look very hard at all. Took me about 10 mouse clicks to disprove this theory.
19. McFeely Smackup - February 23, 2009 4:04 PM
OMG, I just found Atlantis!! Again!!!
This time off the coast of Delaware:
http://tinyurl.com/b82dmk
20. McFeely Smackup - February 23, 2009 4:08 PM
oops...I mean: http://tinyurl.com/cjwf2c
21. Boost - February 23, 2009 4:55 PM
Man, I dont know why, but calling a fart a "toot" makes it sounds so much more revolting.
It's like what you're grandma would call them. Maybe that's why, cause Grandma farts are HORRIBLE!!
22. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - February 23, 2009 5:31 PM
@21: I just threw up in my mouth a little...
23. JFreezy - February 23, 2009 6:05 PM
Speaking of fart...........................oh shit, literally. I just sharted. I'm going to need all the water in Atlantis to clean my soiled boxers! Who am I kidding, I'm wearing a thong, which means I just shit all over my chair.
24. Spam Artist - February 23, 2009 6:13 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Tender Dracula where Chuck tumbled off the pitcher's mound with a triple backwards somersault.
25. Tricky Ricky - February 23, 2009 6:24 PM
Damn, just when you think google could solve all of the worlds mysteries. Google earth, where are all the boats missing from the Bermuda Triangle?
26. jon - February 23, 2009 6:29 PM
Why the hell are there always people who say that the shadows are all wrong? It could be a picture of the sun, and there would be someone who yells "Fake! You can tell because the shadows are all wrong."
27. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - February 23, 2009 6:49 PM
I have no issue communicating without the use of profanity. Quite frankly, the english language offers much more colorful adjectives. The point being made is simply that in this country, where this blog is hosted, we have freedom of speech. The same freedom of speech that would protect this blogger (GW) in court. I find it rather disingenuous of him to post NSFW content and genitalia jokes, then censor our comments about them.
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If you get bored, look around the coastal regions to the north- you will see this same patter on the edge of the "explored" vs. "not explored" areas. Sorry boys N girls, not yet...
28. Jim - February 23, 2009 7:05 PM
@ the haters. Suck my balls retards. Just because you like your news old and crusty like your pu$$ies doesn't mean the other readers of Geekologie do too. Some of us remember when this place was on top of shit, not just eating it!
29. Beastman AIDS - February 23, 2009 7:48 PM
@27
You should put your comment BEFORE the long winded FoS rant that you post on every article. That way people won't just skip it.
Not that it matters - just a helpfull tip because I'm such a super hero.
30. Bren - February 23, 2009 7:52 PM
Africas a continent, not a country. Silly American. :)
31. Daisy - February 23, 2009 10:29 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's were all wrong.
This is exactly like tha scene in hte movie NEver Back Down where Max won the diving competition by performing a triple lindy.
32. Zoid Elpertclam - February 23, 2009 10:42 PM
NOW THIS TICKS ME OOOOOOOFFFFFFFFF!
How the hell did they find Atlantis but not Bin Laden? Not 2Pac and Biggie's killers? What the f[_]ck?! Disregard Amelia Earhart because the b!tch ain't coming back.
33. Zoid Elpertclam - February 23, 2009 10:47 PM
Next up: Noah's Ark
I'm gonna be pissed if they found Noah's b!tch instead of the ark itself.
34. Mesarim - February 24, 2009 8:14 AM
Well, this is what a real underwater city looks like: Roman city of Baia, not too far from Pompeii and Herculaneum.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=40.828235,14.094936&spn=0.001453,0.003157&t=h&z=19
35. luke - February 24, 2009 9:28 AM
well anyone who says it's photoshopped is a retard coz i just went and found this on google map myself, it's there for everyone to see. it's probably not atlantis but it's not a fake picture.
36. DreamFolder - February 24, 2009 12:19 PM
@34
Ancient tract housing. Huh. Guess what goes around comes around.
A couple more degrees of "global warming" and Florida will look like this. "Poor Florida." (RvB)
37. Michael - February 24, 2009 4:15 PM
Would someone help me out i'm having trouble finding the COUNTRY of Africa on the map.....
38. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - February 24, 2009 5:26 PM
Egads people, see the asterisk. Then smack yourself in the forehead and google "PALIN Africa country"... Find your sense of humor and mock someone. KTHXBAI
39. Jo - March 3, 2009 6:56 AM
Yes, this is Atlantis....I have visited Allantis quite a few times. The walls now appear turquoise in colour, that is because of the metal(copper sulphate). There is a beautiful healing temple that has a huge crystal just beneath a sky light, this was to absorb and transfer sunlight for healings, I was a healer and know exactly how the healings were done. There was always a beautiful young man around me...we were so in love, but I think it was a forbidden love, it is the same love I am still searching to have....I have found him again, but we have not yet met in person. He is not yet aware of what I am aware of. He is my TwinRay. I saw it in his eyes. JO
40. Jo - March 3, 2009 7:03 AM
If as some say this is FAKE, then its an excellent FAKE....because, this is what it looks like, and it IS the CORRECT location. JO
41. drumm - May 20, 2009 4:20 PM
what are the direction for that place
42. fred - May 26, 2009 9:57 PM
that amazing there was some prediction about that on http://www.atlann.com about it appearing