{"id":958,"date":"2010-04-08T08:12:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T08:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kirsten-bang\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:51:11","slug":"kirsten-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kirsten-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Bang, Kirsten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Kirsten-Bang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27021 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Kirsten-Bang-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kirsten Bang\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Kirsten-Bang-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Kirsten-Bang.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong> Kirsten<\/strong><strong> Bang (1908-2003) <\/strong>was a Danish writer<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><sup><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(a) <\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/span>who placed Atlantis in the Wadden Sea, which is<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Kirsten_Bang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-54277\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Kirsten_Bang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a> part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/north-sea\/\">North Sea<\/a>, off the coast of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012,<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/larsen-john-essen-n\/\">John Esse Larsen<\/a><\/span>, another Dane, also located Atlantis in the Wadden Sea<b> <\/b>and identified two huge sea stacks off the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/faroe-islands-n\/\">Faroe Islands<\/a> as the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/pillars-of-herakles-revised\/\">Pillars of Herakles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bang dates the destruction of Atlantis to around 1300 BC. This idea follows the theory of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spanuth-dr-jurgen\/\">J\u00fcrgen Spanuth<\/a> who advocated the island of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/helgoland\/\">Helgoland<\/a>, which is in the Wadden Sea, as the location of Atlantis. The author\u2019s book<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\">679<\/a>]<\/sup> which was published in Danish only, is a slim 98 pages.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><sup><span lang=\"EN-GB\">(a)\u00a0<\/span><\/sup><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/odisse.me.uk\/watland-in-the-north-sea-atlantis.html\">https:\/\/odisse.me.uk\/watland-in-the-north-sea-atlantis.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirsten Bang (1908-2003) was a Danish writer(a) who placed Atlantis in the Wadden Sea, which is part of the North Sea, off the coast of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. In 2012, John Esse Larsen, another Dane, also located Atlantis in the Wadden Sea and identified two huge sea stacks off the Faroe Islands as [&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":[1369,269,3519,232,740,54,1023,3520],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-faroe-islands","tag-helgoland","tag-john-essen-larsen","tag-jurgen-spanuth","tag-kirsten-bang","tag-north-sea","tag-pillars-of-herakles","tag-wadden-sea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65647,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/65647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}