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The<\/strong> H<\/strong>esperides <\/strong>in Greek mythology<\/a> were the daughters of Atlas<\/a>. They lived on an island in the far west guarding a tree that bore golden apples, made famous in the story of the twelve labours of Hercules who was charged with obtaining some of the apples.<\/p>\r\n The Hesperides have also been referred to as the Fortunate Islands<\/a> and\u00a0is the name applied by classical writers to islands off the west coast of Africa that have been variously identified with the Azores<\/a>, Canaries<\/a> or Cape Verde<\/a> islands. Other opinions place the garden at Gades<\/a> or on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, <\/b>such as Pliny\u2019s suggested location of Lixus<\/a>(b<\/sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n According to Wikipedia \u201cthe Sicilian Greek poet\u00a0<\/em>Stesichorus, in his poem the “Song of Geryon”, and the Greek geographer Strabo, in his book Geographika (volume III), the garden of the Hesperides is located in Tartessos<\/a>, a location placed in the south of the Iberian peninsula.\u201d(c<\/sup>)<\/sup><\/p>\r\n Gonzalo Fern\u00e1ndez de Oviedo y Vald\u00e9s<\/a> writing in the 16th century [1117<\/a>]<\/sup> considered the Antilles in the Caribbean to have been the legendary Isles of Hesperides.<\/p>\r\n While the majority opinion is that the name specifically refers to the Canaries, a minority view espoused by Andrew Collins<\/a>[<\/sup>072<\/sup><\/a>](<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> is similar to that of Oviedo, namely that Hesperides refers to the Caribbean<\/a>, where he is convinced that Cuba<\/a> had been the home of Atlantis.<\/p>\r\n Reginald Fessenden<\/a> argued that the Hesperides lay in the east<\/em><\/strong> not the west in chapter one of his The Deluged Civilization of the Caucasus<\/em>[1012<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n (<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> \u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>https:\/\/www.grahamhancock.com\/phorum\/read.php?f=1&i=122922&t=122922<\/a><\/p>\r\n