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Calestani, Vittorio (N)
Vittorio Calestani (1882-1949) was an Italian naturalist, ethnologist and meteorologist. A newspaper account(a) in May 1939 reported that Calestani considered Great Britain as Plato’s Atlantis. His opinion was based on rather flimsy arguments and is far from convincing. I also note that he gave a lecture entitled l’Atlantide in 1946 at the Università Popolare di Venezia.
(a) https://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/174249898?searchTerm=Atlantis&searchLimits=l-availability=y
^(Taken from the Christian Science Monitor, Boston)