{"id":3324,"date":"2010-06-08T12:37:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T12:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gutcher-marc-andre\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:50:15","slug":"gutcher-marc-andre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gutcher-marc-andre\/","title":{"rendered":"Gutscher, Marc-Andr\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marc-Andr\u00e9<\/strong> <strong>Gutscher <\/strong>is an American-born geophysicist at the University of Western Brittany. He addressed the 2005 <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-conference-%e2%80%93-melos-2005\/\">Atlantis Conference<\/a> on the subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spartel-island\/\">Spartel Island<\/a>, now submerged just beyond the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/strait-of-gibraltar\/\">Strait of Gibraltar<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/marc-andre2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27273\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/marc-andre2-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"marc-andre2\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/marc-andre2-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/marc-andre2.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a>, but above sea level during the last <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ice-ages\/\">Ice Age<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/jacques-collina-girard\/\">Prof. Jacques Collina-Girard<\/a> had proposed Spartel as a possible location for Atlantis four years earlier. Gutscher subsequently<sup>(a)<\/sup> withdrew his support for a Spartel Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>Gutscher\u2019s theory was attacked on the grounds that no advanced civilisation existed 12,000 years ago. Although Gutscher\u00a0retracted his earlier position, Collina-Girard has stubbornly continued to espouse his views, expanding his argument in a 2009 book<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">0752<\/a><\/sup><sup>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150402100602\/https:\/\/archaeology.about.com\/od\/controversies\/a\/atlantis05_3.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc-Andr\u00e9 Gutscher is an American-born geophysicist at the University of Western Brittany. He addressed the 2005 Atlantis Conference on the subject of Spartel Island, now submerged just beyond the Strait of Gibraltar, but above sea level during the last Ice Age. Prof. Jacques Collina-Girard had proposed Spartel as a possible location for Atlantis four years [&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":[1210,120,1251,566,3115],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2005-atlantis-conference","tag-ice-age","tag-jacques-collina-girard","tag-marc-andre-gutscher","tag-spartel-island"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324","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=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65602,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/65602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}