Deer (Greek elephos) are apparently not mentioned in his Atlantis narrative, however, he does refer to elephants (elephas). Jürgen Spanuth, who advocated a North-West Europe location for Atlantis was unable to satisfactorily reconcile his Helgoland location with Plato’s elephants. Now another German researcher, Eckart Kahlhofer, has offered a simple explanation, namely that a transcription error led to elephas being mistaken for elephos.

    The elk was the largest species of deer in Northern Europe and are still found in Scandinavia. The Great Irish Deer which died out around 5500 BC were 10 feet (3 metres) tall and had an antler span of 11 feet.