Petersen, Monique
Monique Petersen is an American researcher who addressed the 2005 Atlantis Conference promoting her view that America was Atlantis. She accepts the 9600 BC date for its demise as correct and identifies the elephants referred to by Plato as the Columbian Mammoth that roamed North America at that time.
James Bailey held similar views regarding the American mammoth being the reality behind Plato’s reference to elephants. However, Bailey considered Peru as the most likely location of Atlantis