Hot and Cold Springs

Hot and Cold Springs are noted by Plato as a distinctive feature of the central island of Atlantis. Hot springs are usually, but not exclusively, associated with volcanic regions such as Iceland or Yellowstone Park in the USA. Atlantologists have pointed out the existence of hot springs at a variety of locations in support of their particular theories. Jim Allen has highlighted the springs to be found near his option in the Andes, while Robert Ishoy has similarly found comfort in the existence of hot springs on Sardinia. but does not mention the hot springs at Caldana on neighbouring Corsica.

Likewise the Azores, the Canaries, Santorini and even Troy have all had their putative Atlantis status supported with reference to their natural hot springs. The volcanoes of Italy and its islands have many hot springs associated with them^(a). In North Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt also have hot springs. Similarly, on both sides of the Aegean Sea, hot springs are to be found in both Greece and Turkey, some of which are major tourist attractions today.

Unfortunately, instead of helping to solve the Atlantis mystery, the existence of these hot and cold springs at so many suggested Atlantis locations is further confused by the fact that also at a number of these same locations, such as the Canaries, Azores and Santorini, are found to have red, white and black stone.

^(a) Top free hot springs of Southern Italy – Ecobnb (archive.org) *