there was passage for the sea-farers of those trying to reach other
             islands, and from them the whole opposite continent which surrounds what can truly be
             called the ocean. For these regions lie within the strait........seem to be but a bay having a
             narrow entrance; but the other ocean is the real ocean and the land which entirely
             surrounds it may with fullest truth and fitness be named continent." The Libya and Asia
             Plato refers to is roughly about the size of the contiguous United States. Plato therefore
             thought that Atlantis was even larger than Asia and Libya. He also refers to Atlantis being
             near the "bay having a narrow entrance." Today this is known as the Strait of Gibraltar,
             the opening to the Mediterranean Sea. Plato thought that the lost continent was
             somewhere just west of the Strait of Gibraltar. Plato also described the continent of
             Atlantis as being a very mountainous continent, high above the sea level, and being very
             green and plentiful to its inhabitants (Flem-Ath).
             Because Plato was a Greek philosopher, he believed in the Gods of Olympus. The
             most important god of the Greeks was Zeus. Apparently, according to Plato, the
             inhabitants angered Zeus in some manner. Possibly due to the corruption that the
             Atlantean society had acquired. Plato wrote that the waters of the sea rose up and
             "swallowed" the mass whole. Plato estimated the destruction of Atlantis around 9600 b.c.
             Atlantis and the Earth's Shifting Crust
             Rand Flem-Ath highly believes in Plato's Critias and Timaleus. Flem-Ath
             however, feels Plato's view of Atlantis is only a "sl
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