Hello and welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Joe McCormick.

Today we're going to finish out the Vault series that we've been running this week.

This is part four of our series called The Sunkin Lands.

This originally published on December 7th, 2023. Hope you enjoy.

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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick, and we are back with the fourth and final part in our series called The Sunkin Lands, about places on Earth that relatively recently used to be dry land, but are now covered by water.

Now, in previous parts of the series, we talked about, of course, legendary lands of this sort, Atlantis and other fictional or mythical sunken civilizations.

And sorry to be a bummer to the many Atlantis hunters out there, but yes, it does seem like the experts on the original sources that this story comes from, namely a couple of dialogues of Plato, think that it probably is a fictional

invention and not a reference to a real place that existed. But that doesn't mean that there

are not lands that have been within the history of the human species submerged by water.

In fact, we know of some examples of places that were both inhabited by humans and sunk under the water,

not really anything like was described in the Atlanta story.

But there are examples of the sunken land masses of Beringia and Doggerland,

which during and briefly after the last ice age formed land bridges

between North America and Asia and Great Britain and continental Europe, respectively.

We also talked about vanished islands in the Pacific. Some of these supposedly vanished islands

are probably a result of errors in their original reporting.

But others are places that probably actually did vanish or sink beneath the water due to cataclysmic seismic activity.

We also talked about atolls, how they're formed, and where their central islands went.

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