The Arctic Sea around Spitzbergen was proposed as the location of Atlantis by the French astronomer Jean Silvain Bailly in the 18th century. In 1885 Dr. W. F. Warren, a former president of Boston University published a book^[078] that proposed that the cradle of the human race was situated at the North Pole and had been inundated at the time of the Deluge.

Not surprisingly there has been little interest in the idea since.

Modern Russian nationalism seems to have adopted some of the dafter notions of Nazi Germany including the idea of an Aryan master race, from which they claim to be descended, that was formerly located in the Arctic^(a). It is rather worrying that some elements of this nationalism have also adopted anti-semitism as part of their rhetoric^(b).

^(a) http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/30-06-2006/82750-Atlanteans-0

^(b) http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/13shnir.html