The Most Likely Location for Atlantis Is Beneath the Atlantic

The question of Atlantis has always been treated as mythology. Randall approaches it as a geological problem - and he has a specific answer. The most likely candidate, in his assessment, is the Azores microcontinent, a submerged landmass roughly the size of Iceland sitting along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the triple plate junction where the Eurasian, North American, and African plates converge. That location is not speculative. It is one of the most geologically dynamic points on the planet's surface.

What moves the argument from interesting to empirically grounded is the data Randall cites. There is measurable evidence suggesting the Azores microcontinent was above sea level during the late glacial maximum - the period before the ice sheets melted and redistributed their mass into the world's oceans. The process Randall describes is the same one operating at Hudson Bay - trillions of tons of glacial weight transferring into the North Atlantic, forcing the sea bottom to adjust as the geoid constantly works to reestablish equilibrium. That adjustment didn't just raise some landmasses. It submerged others. Randall’s argument is that the Azores microcontinent was one of them - and that what went beneath the water when the ice melted may be exactly what Plato was describing.