Maps for Atlantis

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Map by Ahanasious Kircher, ≈ 1669

Map by Ignatius Donnelly, 1882

Maps by Patroclus Kampanakis, 1891

Map of the publishing house “BUDGET” 1912

Map by Vasilios Paschos, 1979

Map by Theodoros V. Paschos, 2008

The descriptions of the ancients over the position and extent of Atlantis, triggered off many Atlantologists writers and researchers, geographers, cartographers, navigators etc. to draw maps for Atlantis naming them “ATLAS” or “ATLANTES”. The various shapes of these maps are divided into three groups.

The first one and prevailing, until now, presents an oblong shape from East to West, as it is more or less described by Plato.

The second group presents circular-quadrangular, star-like and trapezoid shapes that appear huge in the center of the Atlantic Ocean.

The third group follows the shape of the underwater mountain chain of today, that it looks like a mermaid. It is as if having a tail that narrows to the South.

Map by Ahanasious Kircher, around 1669 A.D.

Representative map of the second group by Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit scholar, researcher and polymath from German and Normandy. The map is contained in his work on geography "Mundus Subterraneus that first appeared in Amsterdam in 1669 AD. Kircher places Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic, between Spain and America. We see on this map that, for unexplainable reasons, the North is noted downwards.

Athanasious Kircher's map of Atlantis, oriented with South
at the top, from Mundus Subterraneus (≈ 1669 AD). 

Map by Ignatius Donnelly

A sample of the third group. Donelly issued this map in his book “Atlantis, the Antediluvian world” in London, 1882.

In the adjacent (on the right) map, the area of Atlantis appears on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, in the geographical location of the Azores, as well as other islands and connecting underwater mountain ranges (dashed lines).

The same book contains a second map showing the Atlantis colonies all over the world, while Atlantis itself is very small in the center of the Atlantic ocean.

(Museum of Atlantis): The Empire of Atlantis: Earth map showing Atlantis and its colonies (in white color), 1882.

(Mus. Atlantis) Map of Atlantis with its islands and
connecting ridges, from deep-sea soundings (1882). 

Maps by Patroclus Kampanakis

They have been drawn in 1891 and published in his book “The procataclysm Communication of the Two Worlds via Atlantis” (Constantinople 1893). They are representative samples of the first group.

(Museum of Atlantis): One of the maps of Patroclus
Kampanakis depicting Atlantis (1891).

Map of the publishing house “BUDGET” of London, 1912

In the second group belongs also the map of Atlantis created by “BUDGET” in 1912, a publishing house specializing in maps. It is published in the book of the Italian Gennaro .D’Amato “Archaeological documents of Atlantis” in 1924. Its main characteristic is the shape of the water canals and the land zones together with the bridges forming the “Cross of Atlantis”.

(Museum of Atlantis): Map of “BUDGET”,
a publishing house in London (17/11/1912).

Map by Vasilis Paschos, founder of the Atlantis Museum

It has been drawn in 1979 and is exhibited in the Museum of Atlantis. It belongs to the first group. It was published in Vassilis Paschos's book "Atlantes, not the Gods, p. 46, ed. Museum of Atlantis, 1983", also in the magazine "Atlantis, issue 1, p. 18, June 1989". As it appears on this map, the area of ​​Atlantis touched on the sides of the northern mid-Atlantic ridge but also on the broadest part of it that creates a plateau, forming the sign of a cross with the ridge. The eastern side of Atlantis was in front of Gibraltar and at a distance equal to that between Crete and Malta.

The western side and the central part of its expanse were in the Sargasso Sea.

Its western side was drenched by the great stream of bay formed between North and South America, in front of the Panama Canal.

According to Greek and Roman mythology, there were other islands between the main island of Atlantis and Europe or the Panama Canal.

Such mythical islands could be: Gorgonia, Tritonida, Amazonia, Erythia, Calypso, Gadeirus, Kirki, the seven islands of the Pleiades (or the Hesperides, the seven daughters of the Atlas), the the island of Hyperboreans and many smaller islands.

(Museum of Atlantis): Map of Atlantis by Vas. Paschos
based on the data of Homer, Plato and the
geographer Marcellus etc., Athens 1979.

Map of Theodoros Paschos

It was designed in 2008 in order to participate in the 2nd International Conference on Atlantis held in Athens on November 10 and 11, 2008. It was published in the volume of "Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Atlantis Hypothesis, p. 543-556".

Theodoros Paschos used the A / M map of Vas. Paschos ( of 1979) to convert it to a color digital format and place the area of ​​the Atlantis island on a satellite map of Google Earth at specific coordinates, taking into account the geological, topographical and bathymetric data around the Mid-Atlantic submarine. On this map it appears that Atlantis spreads at latitude (from S. to N.) approximately between N29⁰ and N43⁰ and at a longitude (from E. to W.) between W20⁰ and W50⁰.

Some geographic lands that cover this area are the Azores plateau on the mountain range and, furthermore, all the remaining volcanic islands of the Azores archipelago. It is the only location in the North Atlantic that can cover the magnitude of Plato's Atlantis area, and it has also been geologically proven that this part of the mountain was formerly above the sea level.

(Museum Atlantis): Map of Atlantis of Theodoros Paschos,
Athens 2008