# Atlantis found (Google Sea)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 20, 2009, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698 "2009-02-20T09:06:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/1 "2009-02-20T09:06:10Z")
What’s this weird pattern in the ocean off the Azores? https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=31.414929%C2%B0,%2B-24.541479%C2%B0&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=25.761936,71.103516&ie=UTF8&ll=31.676758,-24.543457&spn=1.724923,4.44397&t=h&z=8&iwloc=addr It’s 100 miles by 75 miles and looks far to geometric to be random geology! Surely it’s Atlantis, no? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/2 "2009-02-20T09:17:27Z")
I have no idea what that could be. I’m more intrigued by how you even found this. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/3 "2009-02-20T09:18:59Z")
I’m guessing copyright trap. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/4 "2009-02-20T09:59:17Z")
> [@Mudshark](#): > > I have no idea what that could be. I’m more intrigued by how you even found this. Can’t take the credit for spotting it - some chap in Chester, UK spotted it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/5 "2009-02-20T10:10:47Z")
Could it be a pipeline or something? It’s near the Madeira Islands. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/6 "2009-02-20T11:11:18Z")
Not really, it’s 450 miles away from Madeira, in the direction of… nothing. Except the Caribbean. It would be a huge structure, too, 100+ miles square. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/7 "2009-02-20T11:17:33Z")
Anyway, apparently it’s sonar traces of the paths taken by the boats that mapped that part of the ocean floor. > **[Atlantis revealed at last... or just a load of old Googles?](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1150846/Atlantis-revealed--just-load-old-Googles.html)** > > A mysterious grid of lines spotted on the sea on Google Earth which baffled experts is not the lost city of Atlantis but an 'artifact' of Google's map-making. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/8 "2009-02-20T11:23:11Z")
Your not looking for the correct shape anyway. Atlantis is supposed to be laid out in concentric circles. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/9 "2009-02-20T11:27:32Z")
There’s a much larger one [here](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=31.414929%C2%B0,+-24.541479%C2%B0&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=25.761936,71.103516&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=52.789476,-15.776367&spn=8.989285,19.775391&z=6). I don’t see how the guy from the UK missed that one. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/10 "2009-02-20T11:30:55Z")
It’s latitude is 10\*Pi to the third (rounded) decimal :eek: My vote is for a natural formation regardless – if you look around in the area, there are a lot of apparent straight lines, and a similar though less detailed formation somewhat to the north east of the first one. I’m sure a geologist can explain how those lines form. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/11 "2009-02-20T11:33:57Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > Anyway, apparently it’s sonar traces of the paths taken by the boats that mapped that part of the ocean floor. > > [Atlantis revealed at last... or just a load of old Googles? | Daily Mail Online](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1150846/Hopes-dashed-Google-Ocean-image-lost-city-Atlantis-proves-sort.html) Booo! I want to zoom in and see the little merpeople walking up and down the streets of Atlantis. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/12 "2009-02-20T11:37:40Z")
I found you a site that deals with it as Plato wrote about Atlantis. Plato wrote the first text the world currently has on Atlantis. The information supposedly came to him as an old family story from a relative that talked to a Priest from Egypt. [Atlantis](http://www.unmuseum.org/atlantis.htm) > [@](#): > > The capital city of Atlantis was a marvel of architecture and engineering. The city was composed of a series of concentric walls and canals. At the very center was a hill, and on top of the hill a temple to Poseidon. Inside was a gold statue of the God of the Sea showing him driving six winged horses ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/13 "2009-02-20T16:13:40Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > Anyway, apparently it’s sonar traces of the paths taken by the boats that mapped that part of the ocean floor. > > [Atlantis revealed at last... or just a load of old Googles? | Daily Mail Online](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1150846/Hopes-dashed-Google-Ocean-image-lost-city-Atlantis-proves-sort.html) I love the progression of images they chose to illustrate the article with. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/14 "2009-02-20T16:47:38Z")
That’s some freaky shit. ---
**Author:** ![Umbriel2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/4af34b/32.png) [@Umbriel2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Umbriel2)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/15 "2009-02-20T16:48:41Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Your not looking for the correct shape anyway. Atlantis is supposed to be laid out in concentric circles. That was _old_ Atlantis. Before they started building all those “McMansion” developments during the real estate bubble. And boy, when that bubble burst… ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/16 "2009-02-20T17:25:52Z")
Just in case not everyone knows- there \*never was \*an Atlantis, Plato made that up to prove a point. Yes, it is possible he based his \*fictional story \*on some old stories about Crete, etc. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/17 "2009-02-20T18:29:11Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Just in case not everyone knows- there \*never was \*an Atlantis, Plato made that up to prove a point. At the risk of a hijack, how does making something up prove a point, other than that some people will believe anything? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/18 "2009-02-20T18:31:42Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > At the risk of a hijack, how does making something up prove a point, other than that some people will believe anything? It was an illustrative point, Plato made up a fictional nation to illustrate his point. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/19 "2009-02-20T18:33:37Z")
The Cylon Colony ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/20 "2009-02-20T18:45:22Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > Anyway, apparently it’s sonar traces of the paths taken by the boats that mapped that part of the ocean floor. > > [Atlantis revealed at last... or just a load of old Googles? | Daily Mail Online](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1150846/Hopes-dashed-Google-Ocean-image-lost-city-Atlantis-proves-sort.html) Google is lying. They just want to keep all of the Atlantean treasure for themselves. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698.md?page=2)