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Gaffarel, Paul
Paul Gaffarel (1843-1920) was a French historian who in his 1869 work, Rapports de l’Amérique et de l’Ancien Continent [1435], supported an Atlantic location for Atlantis(b). More specifically, he speculated that Atlantis might be found under the Sargasso Sea!
He believed that the influence of Atlantis could be detected in the Americas, Egypt and the Canaries.
In a later book, Histoire de la découverte de l’Amérique [1436], he recorded a belief among the native Caribs of the southern Caribbean islands that the Antillies were once a single landmass, with a similar tradition found in Haiti.
Paul Gaffarel wrote a number of papers between 1875 and 1890 on pre-Columbian trans-Atlantic voyagers from Europe. He presented a 38-page paper on the Phoenicians’ voyages to America to the Congrès International des Américanistes in Nancy (France) in 1875. Other essays concerned the Vikings and ancient Irish(a).
(a) Paul Gaffarel – Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)