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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 »
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Lipari Islands

The Lipari or Aeolian Islands are located northeast of Sicily. The archipelago aeolian_islands_mapincludes the continually active volcano of Stromboli. It was another of the islands, named Vulcano after Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, which gave us the word ‘volcano’.

>Another of the group, called Panarea, has hot gases escaping from a magma chamber that turns “the surrounding waters so corrosive that ancient Romans mariners moored their ships here to cleanse barnacles from the hulls.(d)<

The group of islands is the preferred location for Atlantis by writers such as Winfried Huf and Vlaceslav Jurikov.

It appears that the claim by Jurikov may have been a hoax according to a report on the atlantisforshung.de website!(c)

Further information regarding the extent of this archipelago from the time of the Last Glacial Maximum is available on the mapmistress website(b).

Volcanic pumice from the archipelago has been identified as far away as Egypt and dates to the 18th Dynasty(a).

(a) https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_176233.pdf

(b) Lipari & Vulcano: Aeolian Islands (archive.org) 

(c) https://atlantisforschung.de/index.php?title=Vlaceslav_Jurikov

(d) National Geographic June 2023 p.65  *