{"id":24479,"date":"2014-08-09T08:23:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T07:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=24479"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:39:10","slug":"santantioco-island-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/santantioco-island-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Sant\u2019antioco Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sant\u2019antioco Island <\/strong>is volcanic and situated at the south west coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sardinia-amended\/\">Sardinia <\/a>and is the fourth largest <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Santantioco3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-24484\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Santantioco3-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"Santantioco3\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Santantioco3-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Santantioco3.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Italian island. There are <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/shoal-of-mud\/\">shoals <\/a>to be found around the island that have been suggestive for some<sup>(a)<\/sup> of the shoals created by the submergence of Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/usai-luigi\/\">\u00a0Luigi Usai<\/a> specified the Sardinian region of Sulcis, which includes Sant&#8217;antioco, as the home of the Atlantean capital. The <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/phoenicians\/\">Phoenicians<\/a> had an important city named Sulci on what is now Sant&#8217;antioco<sup>(c)<\/sup>!<\/p>\n<p>Just north of Sant&#8217;antoco is the smaller island of San Pietro where Professor Giorgio Saba has identified two seastacks near Carloforte as the site of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/pillars-of-herakles-revised\/\">Pillars of Heracles<\/a>, known locally as the &#8216; Faraglione Antiche Columns&#8217;.<sup>(b)<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191216195251\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2898\/\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191216195251\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2898\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.costasmeralda.it\/giorgio-saba-alla-ricerca-di-un-sito-mitologico\/\">https:\/\/www.costasmeralda.it\/giorgio-saba-alla-ricerca-di-un-sito-mitologico\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sulci\">Sulci &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sant\u2019antioco Island is volcanic and situated at the south west coast of Sardinia and is the fourth largest Italian island. There are shoals to be found around the island that have been suggestive for some(a) of the shoals created by the submergence of Atlantis. \u00a0Luigi Usai specified the Sardinian region of Sulcis, which includes Sant&#8217;antioco, [&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":[2259,7931,7941,7932,6702,1218,90,48,7940,3318,100,7121],"class_list":["post-24479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-carloforte","tag-faraglione-antiche-columns","tag-giorgio-saba","tag-luigi-usai","tag-muddy-shoals","tag-phoenicians","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-san-pietro","tag-santantioco-island","tag-sardinia","tag-sulcis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24479","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=24479"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65143,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24479\/revisions\/65143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}