{"id":21231,"date":"2013-06-07T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T07:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=21231"},"modified":"2026-02-08T09:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:27:49","slug":"fernando-po-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/fernando-po-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando P\u00f3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>F<\/b><b>ernando P\u00f3,<\/b> now called Bioko, is an island in the Gulf of Guinea off the west coast of Africa. One site<sup>(a)<\/sup> has described Fernando Poo together with other islands (see <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sao-tome-and-principe\/\">S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe<\/a>) in the Gulf of Guinea as the remnants of Atlantis. This idea was probably sparked by a myth on the African mainland, which tells of the destruction of a large landmass in the Gulf and recorded by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/slosman-albert\/\">Albert Slosman<\/a>, who spent some time in nearby Cameroon.<\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190416084610\/http:\/\/www.metrum.org\/mapping\/atlantis.htm\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190416084610\/http:\/\/www.metrum.org\/mapping\/atlantis.htm<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernando P\u00f3, now called Bioko, is an island in the Gulf of Guinea off the west coast of Africa. One site(a) has described Fernando Poo together with other islands (see S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe) in the Gulf of Guinea as the remnants of Atlantis. This idea was probably sparked by a myth on the African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1842,2245,2244,2207,2246],"class_list":["post-21231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-albert-slosman","tag-bioko","tag-fernando-po","tag-gulf-of-guinea","tag-sao-tome-and-principe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66349,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231\/revisions\/66349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}