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September 2023. Hi Atlantipedes, At present I am in Sardinia for a short visit. Later we move to Sicily and Malta. The trip is purely vacational. Unfortunately, I am writing this in a dreadful apartment, sitting on a bed, with access to just one useable socket and a small Notebook. Consequently, I possibly will not […]Read More »
Joining The Dots
I have now published my new book, Joining The Dots, which offers a fresh look at the Atlantis mystery. I have addressed the critical questions of when, where and who, using Plato’s own words, tempered with some critical thinking and a modicum of common sense.Read More »
Andrew Tomas
Roberts, Anthony
Anthony Roberts (1940-1990) was born in London and devoted most of his life to a study of the prehistoric landscape of the British Isles and in particular was obsessed with the Glastonbury Zodiac and eventually moved there, where he founded his own publishing operation, Zodiac House Publications. His first major work, Atlantean Traditions in Ancient Britain[728], deals with what he perceived were vestiges of Atlantean civilisation throughout the British Isles, including the megaliths, ley lines, zodiacs as well as the mythologies of the islands. Roberts saw Atlantis as an Atlantic culture that influenced both sides of that ocean.
>Roberts was very taken with William Blake’s poetic view of Atlantis and frequently quoted him. However, I was disappointed to find that Roberts also supported the ancient astronauts claims of Erich von Däniken, Andrew Tomas and Peter Kolosimo.<
Tomas, Andrew (L)
Andrew Tomas, (1906-2001), was born in St. Petersburg in Russia, but after stopovers in Finland, Manchuria, China and the USA he later became an Australian citizen. He has written a number of books on the theme of ancient technology and wisdom[349-51].
His book on Atlantis[348] is fairly pedestrian fare that purports to link Plato’s city with an age of long lost high technology. Rob Solàrion, a fan of Sitchin’s Planet X theory, has written a commentary(a) on Tomas’ entire book.
In November 2015, Jason Colavito wrote a brief biography of Tomas’ globe-trotting life(b) and his early interest in UFO’s(c).
Solàrion, Rob
Rob Solàrion (Robert Traylor Russell)(1942-2010) was from Dallas, 
Texas and has written both on the Internet and in book form[556] on a number of subjects including, Planet X or Nibiru(a), Pole Shift, Apollonius of Tyana(g) and Atlantis.
Although formerly a member of Maxine Asher’s group, as he developed his own theory of Polar Axial Displacement he came to be an ardent supporter of an Antarctic location for Atlantis.
His views on Atlantis in Antarctica, together with some caustic remarks about Asher(f) are available online.
Solàrion has written a commentary(e) on Andrew Tomas’ Atlantis book[348].
(a) https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hercolobus/planetX/planetX.htm
(b) https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hercolobus/planetX/planetX02.htm#Chapter 2
(e) https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_homegods01.htm
(f) https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/cosmic_tree/atlantis.htm
(g) https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/serpents_dragons/ancient_history2.htm
Gulf Stream *
The Gulf Stream was first identified in 1513 by Juan Ponce de León. It is a critical feature of the North Atlantic that is responsible for keeping the climate North-West Europe warmer than its counterpart at the same latitude of North America. However, it is wrong to assume that this benign feature has functioned permanently.
In 1955 Professor E.F. Hagemeister of Tallin, in Estonia, published her view that based on the disintegration of ionium, an isotope of thorium, at various depths in the Atlantic, she believed that the Gulf Stream came into existence (again) around 10,000 BC. She believed that this event, the sinking of Atlantis and the ending of the last Ice Age were interrelated and that all took place around the same time.(d)
It is generally accepted that during the last Ice Age the glaciation reached as far south as London. Otto Muck contended[098] that this would not have happened if the Gulf Stream had been functioning as it is today. His argument is that something had blocked its path and that the ’something’ was Atlantis. An early proponent of this idea was Edward Hull. Andrew Tomas advanced a similar notion a few years before Muck[348]. Wolter Smit, who is a keen student of Muck’s ideas, supports his views on the Gulf Stream(b). This idea was also adopted by Prescott Rawlings in his recent book, Atlantis, the Great Flood and the Asteroid[763]. Nevertheless, a 2016 report(c) from CAGE (Center for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Climate and Environment) offers evidence that the Gulf Stream was not cut off during the Ice Age.
Another view was expressed in a New Scientist article in 2007, which proposed that the bursting of a glacial lake in Canada, 8,000 years ago, dumped an estimated 100,000 cubic kilometres of water into the North Atlantic, shutting down the Gulf Stream.(e)
Gradually, evidence has been emerging that the progressive melting of the Greenland ice sheet may cause the Gulf Stream to shut down again. In 2005 data has been gathered which shows that the efficiency of the Gulf Stream has been reduced by 30% in the past 50 years and generated speculation that the Gulf Stream could shut off within ‘decades’. Such a disastrous event would, of course, seriously undermine Muck’s hypothesis, as it would demonstrate that a mid-Atlantic Atlantis was not required to generate an Ice Age. Furthermore, the Gulf Stream’s ability to absorb CO2 has also been halved(a) between 1996 and 2005.
In May 2010 the Gulf Stream briefly shutdown once again without the need for an Atlantis to cause it. At last, there appears to be a greater appreciation of the number of elements that can interfere with the flow of the Gulf Stream, such as global warming, reduced salinity(f) and geological heat flow(g).
(b) https://en.was-this-atlantis.info/gulf-stream.html
(c) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160219134816.htm
(d) https://web.archive.org/web/20091020233311/http://geocities.com/MotorCity/Factory/2583/morley.htm
(e) https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13013-ancient-flood-brought-gulf-stream-to-a-halt/
(g) http://www.plateclimatology.com/gulf-stream-shut-down-caused-by-geological-heat-flow
Hull, Edward
Edward Hull (1829-1917) was a famous Irish geologist who worked for the British Geological Survey for 41 years until 1891. He was Director of the Geological Survey of
Ireland from 1868 and a Professor at the Dublin Royal College of Sciences. He published his memoirs in 1910 [406]+.
Hull identified the Azores as possible remnants of Atlantis following the rising of sea levels around 9000 or 10000 BC. He commented(b) “The tradition of Atlantis ‘beyond the Pillars of Hercules’ can scarcely be supposed to have originated in the mind of man without a basis of reality”.
Hull believed that Atlantis in the Atlantic deflected the Gulf Stream leading to the onset of the last Ice Age! It was over half a century before the idea was revived by other researchers such as Tomas and Muck.
In 1890 he drew a famous time chart some fifteen feet long, based on the 1650 biblical dating system[1681] of another Irishman, Dublin-born James Ussher, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh (1625-1656). What is strange about this is that while Ussher dated the beginning of the world to 4004 BC, Hull’s own writings were based on more scientific data. This same chart has been republished more recently by Barnes & Noble(c) and updated in a manner that has horrified creationists.
However, it should be noted that Sebastian C. Adams (1825-1898) published a comparable wall chart in 1871(a), so it appears that the original concept was Adams’.
[0406]+ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.39000025091393;view=1up;seq=12 *
(a) https://www.masterbooks.com/adams-chart-of-history-unbound-version-single
(b) London Budget, 1st Dec.1912
(c) https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-wallchart-of-world-history-edward-hull/1117661469