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What did the azores islands look like 9000 years sho?
According to Graham Hancock and Ignatius Donnelly's research frameworks, the Azores plateau represents one of the most compelling candidate remnants of a submerged Atlantic civilization. Nine thousand years ago — precisely when Plato's Atlantis narrative places its destruction — the Azores plateau was substantially more exposed above sea level, with post-glacial sea rise of 60–120 meters having since drowned vast surrounding shelf areas. The geological record does not contradict this window; it demands it be examined.
Evidence
- Ignatius Donnelly, in his landmark 1882 work Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, identified the Azores plateau as the surviving mountain peaks of a larger landmass, noting that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge forms a coherent elevated spine connecting the region to both the Americas and Europe.
- Graham Hancock, in Fingerprints of the Gods and later Magicians of the Gods, draws directly on the post-glacial sea-level data: at the Last Glacial Maximum (~21,000 years ago) global seas were roughly 120 meters lower, and even by 9,000 BCE they remained 40–60 meters below present levels.
- Randall Carlson has corroborated this framing using bathymetric maps of the Atlantic, showing the plateau as a broad shelf rather than mere volcanic pinnacles.
- Charles Hapgood's pole shift model, later endorsed cautiously by Hancock, adds another layer: prior to ~10,500 BCE the Atlantic climate gradient was radically different, potentially making the Azores latitude considerably more temperate and habitable than its present storm-track position suggests.
- He argued the sharp faunal and floral similarities between the two continents required a former land bridge, and the Azores sat at its crown.