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Ignatius Donnelly has recently published a work in defence of the story that a continent known among the ancients as Atlantis was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by an earthquake.
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and microcontinents smaller than 2,500,000 km (970,000 sq mi), which is approximately one third of the area of
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in reference to some landmasses (none of which are as large as any of the seven generally-recognized
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ATLANTIS SEARCH SHIFTS TO AEGEAN; Lost Continent Legend Held Based on False Statistics
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Submerged continents have been sought and speculated about in regard to a possible "
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Continental mass, extensive in size, but mainly undersea
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