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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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    I have now published my new book, Joining The Dots, which offers a fresh look at the Atlantis mystery. I have addressed the critical questions of when, where and who, using Plato’s own words, tempered with some critical thinking and a modicum of common sense.Read More »
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Richard Bowdler Sharpe

Sharpe, Richard Dowdler

Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909) was an English zoologist, who specialised in ornithology. In Sharpe_Richard_Browdler_1847-19091893 he suggested that a huge continent centred on the South Pole had existed in the southern hemisphere. Newspaper reports tell us that this highly speculative continent had embraced “South America, Madagascar, Mauritius, New Zealand and Australia; and thus he explained the existence of the cognate struthious birds that now exist, or once existed, in those countries.”(b)

It might seem strange that Sharpe did not mention Antarctica, but, it is understandable, as the first recorded and confirmed landing on Antarctica did not take place until 1895(a).

(a) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica

(b) https://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/193416344?searchTerm=Plato Atlantis&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc