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Lost City of Atlantis Not Found on Google Earth!

Techtree News Staff, Feb 23, 2009 1013 hrs IST

Google dismisses claims

Buried treasure? No, this time it's a lost city which has found its way into Google Earth.

A UK-based aeronautical engineer Bernie Bamford has claimed to The Sun that he had seen on Google Earth a grid of lines undersea off the coast of West Africa, about 600 miles west of the Canary Islands, a location which experts believe where Atlantis had sunk. The exact coordinates on Google Earth - 31 15'15.53N, 24 15'30.53W - where he claims to have found the sunken city of Atlantis.

Atlantis a mythical island which Plato had described sinking into the ocean "in a single day and night of misfortune" around 9000 BC.

But Google is officially denying the rumors saying that the lines represented sonar data collected from boats.

According to a Google statement, "It's true that many amazing discoveries have been made in Google Earth including a pristine forest in Mozambique that is home to previously unknown species and the remains of an Ancient Roman villa."

"In this case, however, what users are seeing is an artifact of the data collection process. Bathymetric (or sea floor terrain) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea floor."

But debate rages on -- is it or is it not the Lost City of Atlantis?

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monsoor

,tirupati, on Dec 24, 2009 06:17 PM

where is atlantis is founded

Tito

,Cebu City, on Feb 22, 2009 08:16 PM

If it was so easy for Google to survey EVERY portion of the Earth's oceans, can't they just simply re-survey that area just to satisfy the skeptics of their explanation? If the lines disappear, it was a sonar glitch. If the lines don't disappear, then, well...

Steve

,Southampton, UK, on Feb 24, 2009 08:12 AM

They didn't survey it, science and government institutions did and gave Google their data. I don't think Google will be surveying anything anytime soon, or sending out expeditions.

Tomlins

,Earth, on Jul 12, 2009 02:29 AM

You dumb schmucks, Google is telling you that the information you see if a graphis glitch from the data they received. And what if they are covering it up. It's not like the place is a restricted military space. Here, go buy a boat, get a crew and search the place and when you find nothing but starfish and seahorses screwing, stay there and don't come back and eat our heads! Ugh

Gary Schoenung

,South Milwaukee, WI, on Mar 01, 2009 04:06 AM

There are more lines at 12 degrees 17' N and 153 degrees E. If you look to the right of that at the bottom right corner of the triangle you can find a 10 mile wide strip running North in a straight line. You can measure that strip in the most visible locations at 10 miles wide in a perfectly straight line for 2,100 miles. There is another 10 mile wide strip that appears to intersect it at 8 degrees 26' 33.29" N and 155 degrees 1' 30.42" E and runs in a straight line W/NW for 609 miles. The grid to the west of Mexico and California measures 257 miles from the top East/West line to the bottom one. I'm very curious to see how Google explains that.

Sue

,Australia, on Apr 30, 2009 03:39 AM

Thank you for having something interesting to say. I have put this site in my Favorites, and will watch for more information.

chloe

,sa, on Mar 19, 2009 05:44 AM

hi everyone i hate you guy's

Gary Schoenung

,South Milwaukee, WI, on Mar 05, 2009 03:38 AM

77 degrees 52' 59" N and 6 degrees 24' 14" W 470 Km up. It seems that either no one here has the slightest amount of curiosity or no one reads this so I will post elsewhere. You would think that things that probably haven't been seen by anyone in 9000 years would generate more interest. Thanks for all the feed back.

Gary Schoenung

,South Milwaukee, WI, on Mar 04, 2009 03:47 AM

This one is unbelievable. 74 degrees 15' 37" N and 37 degrees 03' 14" E from 1000 Km. It only took about 20 minutes to find this last night.

kumarpatnam

,harihar, on Mar 03, 2009 07:33 PM

i have liked this google very much

Gary Schoenung

,South Milwaukee, WI, on Mar 03, 2009 03:34 AM

Sorry about the number of posts, I'm still putting 2 and 2 together. I first caught on to this stuff last Tuesday because of the "Atlantis" story. Look at 27 degrees 35' 35" N and 158 degrees 49' 25" E from 800 Km up with Google Earth. The strip on the left is the one that you can follow for 2,100 miles straight North and South.

Gary Schoenung

,South Milwaukee, WI, on Mar 03, 2009 01:23 AM

Look at where the river beds join the grids. Now stop thinking cities and think crops, livestock, fish, and water. Those aren't where people lived, it's where they got their food.

Harlan bast

,Erin, on Mar 02, 2009 06:00 AM

this place is awsome!

gowtham

,vijayawada, on Feb 28, 2009 11:16 AM

show my city map

mohsen

,tehran, on Mar 01, 2009 10:51 PM

tehran

mohsen

,tehran, on Mar 01, 2009 10:45 PM

hi every body in all of the world

mani neupane

,palpa nepal, on Mar 01, 2009 06:52 PM

i want se my house

gowtham

,vijayawada, on Feb 28, 2009 11:11 AM

show my city map

Gary Schoenung

,South Milwaukee, WI, on Feb 28, 2009 05:39 AM

One more thing. If you look off the west coast of Mexico, you find more grids. Notice the lines and the angles. measure the distance in between the lines. The west coast of Canada...more lines. You can see where the glaciers bull-dozed the land flat and you can see where the water flowed as the glaciers melted. And you can see where the rivers once flowed. What makes you think that rivers could be there but not people?

Gary Schoenung

,South Milwaukee, WI, on Feb 28, 2009 04:52 AM

I was hoping for some feedback on this. What I now suspect is that 9000 years ago an impact that there is still evidence for happened at about 25 36' N and 166 13' E. It fractured the Earths crust and pushed it down on one side and created a number of stress fractures from shock and internal pressure, as well as an irregularity on the other side where the shock waves came together. The impact was so intense that it tilted the planets orbit. See my previous posting for coordinates.

Billy

,Newhall, on Feb 27, 2009 09:18 AM

why not people go and look at it personally then?

Gary Schoenung

,South Milwaukee, WI, on Feb 27, 2009 02:54 AM

Try this for an explanation. Take the fault line / stress fracture that circles Africa and center it from the edges with Google earth (4 25' N, 12 24' E). Now look at the exact opposite side of the globe. The ring of fire frames it very nicely and the crust is pushed inward. I think the impact happened at 25 36' 45" N, 166 13' 03" E.

Zdenek Zvolanek

,Prague, Karlik, on Feb 26, 2009 10:15 AM

Boys, before you comment important finding, read the available information. Plato perfectly described this huge strukture of bold canals for irrigation and transport.This place inside a diamond of 4 hotspots is the ace with better value than bias of ignorant and seekers for gold.

Zdenek Zvolanek

,Prague, Karlik, on Feb 26, 2009 09:50 AM

Boys, before you comment important finding, read the available information. Plato perfectly described this huge strukture of bold canals for irrigation and transport.This place inside a diamond of 4 hotspots is the ace with better value than bias of ignorant and seekers for gold.

mustaf

,london, on Feb 26, 2009 12:18 AM

and what do Plato sea mount Atlantis sea mount great meteor table mount stand for then? the hints were there all long planted by the very people who surveyed and named these locations... Look at Venice or Amsterdam or Dubai built on water and crossed by channels... To me Google is trying to deny (cover up?) the obvious

Dave

,Omelas, on Feb 22, 2009 09:04 PM

The problem with the layout of this "city" is that the supposed streets appear to be gouged hundreds of feet into the bedrock, turning them into enormous trenches, while each city block is on such a scale that it would take several miles of walking just to get to the corner. They may be straight lines, but these trenches (or data artifacts) do not look anything like practical, man-made roads. There is also no sign of any tectonic cataclysm that should be evident if a region of this size were to have subsided or "sunk" three miles below the ocean surface. The ocean floor appears very ordinary in the area surrounding the site, and at no time was the sea level low enough for that area to be exposed.

tony b.

,tilden, on Feb 23, 2009 08:25 PM

whole plates can rise and fall, but no sonor sled could cause those trenches,no way,no how. caN ANYONE SHOW AN EXPEDITION THERE? no....sonor is flown, not dragged,and why is hard to believe a city or many cities could be submerged?

Steve

,Southampton, UK, on Feb 24, 2009 07:43 AM

This makes complete sense. I think people just want to believe its a city because its exciting.

mustaf

,London, on Feb 26, 2009 12:13 AM

note that this odd pattern is nevertheless situated near places named as "PLATO SEAMOUNT" "ATLANTIS SEAMOUNT" and "GREAT METEOR TABLE MOUNT" hints were there all along why deny the obvious why would ship tracks appear only in this location ? Cities built on water and cut by channels exist to this day have you seen Amsterdam, Venice, Bruges or Dubai?

mustaf

,London, on Feb 26, 2009 12:13 AM

note that this odd pattern is nevertheless situated near places named as "PLATO SEAMOUNT" "ATLANTIS SEAMOUNT" and "GREAT METEOR TABLE MOUNT" hints were there all along why deny the obvious why would ship tracks appear only in this location ? Cities built on water and cut by channels exist to this day have you seen Amsterdam, Venice, Bruges or Dubai?

Bill Anderson

,Atlantis, on Feb 22, 2009 12:05 PM

This is true. However, the data collected from the boats don't seem to reflect natural occurrences in the ocean. Geometrically speaking the rectangular shapes discovered are to large and almost to perfect. Sonar suggest the size of the area discovered is as large as Whales. I believe this discovery may very well be the site of Atlantis. Further exploration is the only way our curious minds will be satisfied.

Nobody Importan

,Milwaukee, on Feb 22, 2009 12:13 PM

Be careful what you wish for... Atlantis stimulus package here we come...

Brad

,CT, on Feb 23, 2009 01:09 AM

pretty sure what we're looking at is the search pattern for the USS Scorpion, sunk with all hands in 1968.

gareth jones

,newport. wales, on Feb 23, 2009 04:58 AM

bill. its wales not whales. there are no whales in wales. only sheep.

Michael Newton

,Jacksonville, on Feb 24, 2009 09:01 PM

Look again, those city blocks are over 12 x 8 miles, the site what would have to 100 mile long roads! That was some big city if that is what it is...

Gilana Gelman

,New York, NY, on Feb 22, 2009 01:17 PM

Everybody knows that Atlantis was really a colony of Mars. The Bush administration found satellite evidence but they were afraid it would flip us out. Maybe Obama will tell us the truth! Atlantis rocks!

zensixties

,Philly, on Feb 22, 2009 01:39 PM

Bush was right. I just found this out from you and I'm totally flipped out!! Everything I've believed my whole life has been shattered. I'm calling te mental hospital as we speak for an emergency lobotomy!

stig silver

,Atlantis, on Feb 24, 2009 07:36 PM

An explanation has been given as to what the lines are. End of discussion. Anyone who thinks this is the lost city of Atlantis should have their head examined. There are so many deluded people on this planet it's frightening.

joe hayden

,granville, on Feb 23, 2009 02:28 AM

amazing google would print such a story, and cause so many hits on the new google earth site!

Steve

,Southampton, UK, on Feb 24, 2009 07:57 AM

Google didn't print the story, they just responded to a UK newspaper printing the story

Skeptic

,Col Sprngs, on Feb 22, 2009 07:03 PM

It can't be Atlantis, because Atlantis was really the city of Enoch, which was taken up into space by God.

Grumpy

,Oregon, on Feb 22, 2009 08:54 PM

City of Enoch??? I've heard of the day/year principal, but not the person/city.

Irk

,Medaryville, on Feb 23, 2009 01:00 AM

Enoch was a person, not a city. And he was taken up into heaven, not into space.

Steve

,Southampton, UK, on Feb 24, 2009 07:49 AM

Religulous...

Mike

,carmel, on Feb 24, 2009 03:00 AM

Its great he found it shortly AFTER the guy in indianapolis found it and put it on his web site. What a idiot maybe he'll discover the new world 200 years after columbus landed on it

Steve

,Southampton, UK, on Feb 24, 2009 07:39 AM

Maybe he should have gone to the press instead of some obscure website. He's probably not such an idiot that he doesn't know when to use "an" in a sentence instead of "a"...

Anonymous

,chicago, on Feb 24, 2009 01:19 AM

"Sonar Lines"? Ok, Google: if it is what you claim, show us more examples of the same lines generated by sonar. I haven't seen ONE.

Steve

,Southampton, UK, on Feb 24, 2009 07:36 AM

Actually there's one just to the east of this one. 31° 6'43.01"N 19°40'35.62"W

Mark

,Aussie, on Feb 24, 2009 03:03 AM

hey, is that a McDonalds outlet on the corner, forth down and two in from the left

aziz

,New York, on Feb 24, 2009 01:03 AM

google earth is a program very good.i like this program but i don't know how to use it.

michaelbix

,Brattleboro, Vt, on Feb 23, 2009 11:23 PM

I do a lot of seafloor surveys for my historical climate work and I was glad when Google updated their database - I wish it were better. This is not "Google's" data - it comes from government and military agencies such as NASA and the Navy. They can't "go out and re-do that part of the ocean" folks - they are just a Database Company. The sonar "strips" as the ships go back and forth taking measurements show up all kinds of places - in the Irish Sea, the Rockall Trough, the Gulf of Mexico. They have to be worked around - they are "data trash." If you want to put this to rest, buy accurate sea floor data from the Spanish or Portuguese governments. It's probably in their territorial waters. The ArcSoft set will probably only set you back US $300 or so - if you have the 3-D mapping software to unfold the data sets.

I. M. A. Dufus

,Lower Sackville, on Feb 23, 2009 10:58 PM

What, no mention of Edgar Cayce's prophesies?

Dennie Dennis

,New York, on Feb 22, 2009 07:28 PM

Scientifically, Googles assertion of sonar artificats doesn't hold up. Look, we are talking PROFESSIONAL high level map makers here. Scrubbing artifacts from sonar data is Mapmaking 101 and any intelligent map science professional will bear this out. If Google really wanted to put this to rest they would release the original raw data and allow it to be subjected to the cold light of objective scientific inquiry.

Jugurten

,Atlantis , on Feb 23, 2009 07:00 PM

Maybe Google want to calm people down and investigate on their own. It is a big enough company to be able to fund an expedition. And if I was a Google Owner I would think:" hey that's my software!!! if something is discovered thanks to MY software I want to be the first..." So everyone is sent to pick uop Lilies in the prairie and Google investigate...

M Buludrau

,Lautoka, on Feb 23, 2009 12:36 PM

Has the myth come true? A very poor attempt at resurrecting something best left alone.

anamika

,new jersey, on Feb 23, 2009 11:03 AM

Duh.. read the headline... Lost City of Atlantis NOT FOUND on Google Earth

Phos

,Bristol, on Feb 23, 2009 08:22 AM

It's too big to be a city and if Google say it is an artifact of mapping then that is probably true. There are similar lines East of this site which could be misconstrued in the same way.

Anonymous

,hobart, on Feb 23, 2009 08:16 AM

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL thats funny as isnt it zac

You

,Your house, on Feb 23, 2009 04:53 AM

Athlantis by Eyvind Kang, great record, real mellow, oh and the album is spelled ATHlantis. check it out

James

,Denton, TX, on Feb 23, 2009 04:20 AM

If you look look West of Ireland, a section of the sea floor about twice the size of the UK has the same "grid" effect as found here. It's obvious that it isn't anything of interest. You can see these "lines" on sonar scans of shipwreck sites individually. Evey scan of a shipwreck is always accompanied by a line nearby from the sonar.

Your Face

,Bang Bang, on Feb 23, 2009 04:05 AM

anyone ever heard of science fiction?like how our people speak of places on mars and blah blah blah.get over atlantis,its just platos version of a science fiction novel.

Millard

,NYC, NY, on Feb 23, 2009 03:01 AM

How, exactly, does "the debate [go] on"? Google said it's not lines in the actual world. I realize the templates for news stories are written and the data of any given story plugged in, but its still annoying to see such lazy sensationalism. Oh, and it's Santorini.

Dan S

,trenton, on Feb 22, 2009 07:22 PM

Atlantis has been found ON LAND. It was buried by a volcano, it sank in to ASH not water. It was on the History channel, look it up.

Irk

,Medaryville, on Feb 23, 2009 01:02 AM

That presumes that what appears on the History channel is factual...hardly the case.

casey

,houlton, on Feb 23, 2009 02:29 AM

I believe you might be referring to Pompeii

hydromapper

,Louisville, on Feb 23, 2009 01:58 AM

It's sonar lines. Seen it many times before in bathymetric data. Just not on Google Earth. That grid was improperly zeroed when it was added to the database, causing the center line of the sonar soundings to appear above or below the interpolated floor. It's a simple calculation error.

Hoodlum

,Sebastian, Fl, on Feb 23, 2009 01:32 AM

So....Google....how come there are no OTHER similar lines to be found...Hmmmm?

J. Burnett

,Dallas, on Feb 23, 2009 12:49 AM

What good is data if it is false? Does this admission by google that false data occurs because of collection techniques falsify all data found or are they just trying to hide something? If this data is false, then maybe all their data is inaccurate.

Anonymous

,Clarksville, on Feb 23, 2009 01:00 AM

You fool, it's just a side effect of sonar mapping technology, the little lines show the path of the boat with the mapping device. It isn't false it was just misread by an inexperienced observer.

Lionel Gambill

,Novato, on Feb 23, 2009 12:26 AM

Theories have included a British Isles subcontinent, a land-mass around the island of Thera in the Aegean, and one around the Canary Islands. The most intriguing one assumes not submergence but continental drift and identifies Antarctica as the lost continent. Evidence does show a tropical past and something resembling a round wall.

A Difference

,Lynchburg, VA, on Feb 23, 2009 12:24 AM

It wouldn't matter if it were a sunken city. Every publicly funded scientist would deny that it is because there is no "naturalist" model that can explain something like that.

Betty

,Ramona, on Feb 22, 2009 11:55 PM

What a shame it isn't Atlantis. Would have made my day, so to speak. What wonderful reading there would have been written on it!!

Candygram

,Chicago, on Feb 22, 2009 11:46 PM

Oh, goodie, another conspiracy theory on ZetaTalk. Oye vey!

V. Ambro

,Cambridge, Ont., on Feb 22, 2009 11:44 PM

So much gooble gooble around! here!!! Question is! What was the population on the world 9000 years BC that would evolute a city of that magnitude??? Perhaps the wheel was not even invented!! LOL

Michael McKown

,Los Angeles, on Feb 22, 2009 11:44 PM

If it is Atlantis, I want to buy several acres in the downtown area. Where can I find a Realtor who handles that place?

Jay

,st paul, on Feb 22, 2009 11:36 PM

If you think its there, go put on a diving suit and go look....

Red

,Easton, PA, on Feb 22, 2009 11:25 PM

Then why is it only in one place?

Anonymous

,somewhere West of the Pecos, on Feb 22, 2009 11:04 PM

Sheesh, people are SO gullible. This thing is over 100 miles long; Obviously a landing strip for the Thetans - the Scientologists have been right all along. All Hail Tom Cruise!

Rich

,Tracy, Ca, on Feb 22, 2009 10:24 PM

Wouldn't it be wonderful if this is really Atlantis or even some other place never found. I'd like to see more data on this area particularly how this area was surveyed. I can't believe that these many square miles of ocean haven't revealed something unique. We'll see.

Tito

,Cebu City, on Feb 22, 2009 09:15 PM

Hm. To put it in context, the largest urban agglomeration in the modern world is metropolitan Tokyo at over 5,200 sq. miles (13,000 sq km.).

Drew

,Opelika, on Feb 22, 2009 08:45 PM

How about check the scale, its over 100 MILES square. Thats one huge city eh? How something so simple can make nation wide news shows us that the media is full of crap.

whist

,Parma, on Feb 22, 2009 08:44 PM

An ancient Roman villa in Mozambique - now that is earthshaking. Or poorly orgnanized writing.

aniket

,patna, on Feb 22, 2009 08:13 PM

search

A. Ahmed

,Sana'a Yemen, on Feb 22, 2009 12:08 PM

The lost city of Atlantis was identified by NASA satellite in the mid-90's. It is thought by some to be the ancient city of AAD mentioned in the Quran and located in the desert in the area between northern Oman and Yemen. Did anyone ever consider Plato's sources from 9000 BC??? If the Oman.Yemen sunken city seen by the NASA satellite proves to be the fabled city of AD-lantis would someone please "cc" the creators of Atlantis in Dubai??

Bill

,Vestal NY, on Feb 22, 2009 07:44 PM

Haha. Some of you folks need to adjust your tinfoil skullcaps. The alien / government conspiracy mind control beams are sneaking in.

penny pincher

,Atlantis, on Feb 22, 2009 07:40 PM

You can find the "Lost City of Atlantis" by mixing half and half your pancake mix and self rising flour. And, of course, save money.

Dan S

,trenton, on Feb 22, 2009 07:20 PM

Atlantis has been found ON LAND. It was buried by a volcano, is sank in to ASH not water. It was on the History channel, look it up.

manojlds

,Chennai, on Feb 22, 2009 03:50 PM

Well if you measure the size of the region, its about 100x70 miles squared. That's much bigger than even a modern city. Google's explanation is true, since you can find such patterns atmany other places

ayaz

,dubai, on Feb 22, 2009 02:43 PM

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