Editing Atlantis (section)

===In Europe===
[[File:Doggerland.svg|thumb|right|upright=1.15|A map showing the hypothetical extent of [[Doggerland]] (c.&nbsp;8,000&nbsp;BC), which provided a land bridge between Great Britain and continental Europe]]
[[File:Doggerland3er_en.png|thumb|upright=1.15|A map showing the hypothetical extent of Doggerland from now back to the [[Weichselian glaciation]]]]
Several hypotheses place the sunken island in northern Europe, including [[Doggerland]] in the [[North Sea]], and [[Sweden]] (by [[Olof Rudbeck]] in ''[[Olaus Rudbeck#Historical linguistics|Atland]]'', 1672–1702). Doggerland, as well as Viking Bergen Island, is thought to have been flooded by a [[megatsunami]] following the [[Storegga Slide]] of c. 6100 BC. Some have proposed the [[Celtic Sea#Seabed|Celtic Shelf]] as a possible location, and that there is a link to Ireland.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Lovgren |first=Stefan |title=Atlantis "Evidence" Found in Spain and Ireland |magazine=[[National Geographic Magazine|National Geographic]] |date=19 August 2004 |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/08/0819_040819_atlantis.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040820045716/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/08/0819_040819_atlantis.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 August 2004 }}</ref> In 2004, Swedish [[Physical geography|physiographist]] Ulf Erlingsson<ref name=":0">{{Cite conference|conference=Atlantis Conference|location=Milos|last=Erlingsson|first=Ulf|date=11 July 2005|title=A geographic comparison of Plato's Atlantis and Ireland as a test of the megalithic culture hypothesis|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242275382}}</ref> proposed that the legend of Atlantis was based on Stone Age Ireland. He later stated that he does not believe that Atlantis ever existed but maintained that his hypothesis that its description matches Ireland's geography has a 99.8% probability. The director of the [[National Museum of Ireland]] commented that there was no archaeology supporting this.<ref>{{cite news |title=Swedish academic plays down Atlantis claims |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/swedish-academic-plays-down-atlantis-claims-1.987962 |access-date=22 August 2020 |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=19 August 2004 |language=en}}</ref>

In 2011, a team, working on a documentary for the [[National Geographic Channel]],<ref name="National Geographic">{{cite web|url=http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/finding-atlantis-4982/Overview |title=Finding Atlantis |publisher=National Geographic Channel |access-date=10 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707180542/http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/finding-atlantis-4982/Overview |archive-date=7 July 2011 }}</ref> led by Professor Richard Freund from the [[University of Hartford]], claimed to have found possible evidence of Atlantis in southwestern [[Andalusia]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Howard|first=Zach|title=Lost city of Atlantis, swamped by tsunami, may be found|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tsunami-atlantis-idUSTRE72B2JR20110312|work=Reuters|access-date=13 March 2011|date=12 March 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110315070554/https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/us-tsunami-atlantis-idUSTRE72B2JR20110312| archive-date= 15 March 2011 | url-status=live}}</ref> The team identified its possible location within the [[marsh]]lands of the [[Doñana National Park]], in [[Las Marismas|the area]] that once was the [[Lacus Ligustinus]],<ref>{{cite book|title=The Silent Past: Mysterious and forgotten cultures of the world|url=https://archive.org/details/silentpastmyster00liss|url-access=registration|author=Ivar Lissner|publisher=Putnam|year=1962|page=[https://archive.org/details/silentpastmyster00liss/page/156 156]}}</ref> between the [[Huelva Province|Huelva]], [[Cadiz Province|Cádiz]], and [[Seville province]]s, and they speculated that Atlantis had been destroyed by a [[tsunami]],<ref>{{cite magazine| url= https://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/14/lost-no-longer-researchers-claim-to-have-found-atlantis-off-mainland-spain/ |author=Zoe Fox| title=Science Lost No Longer? Researchers Claim to Have Found 'Atlantis' in Spain.|magazine=Time |date=14 March 2011| access-date=14 March 2011}}</ref> extrapolating results from a previous study by Spanish researchers, published four years earlier.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Geological Record of the Oldest Historical Tsunamis in Southwestern Spain |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |author=Francisco Ruiz |author2=Manuel Abad |volume=114 |issue=1 |pages=145–154 |url=http://gte526.geoma.net/uploads/122469523654Ruiz%20et%20al%202008.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120040526/http://gte526.geoma.net/uploads/122469523654Ruiz%20et%20al%202008.pdf |archive-date=20 January 2012 |issn=0035-6883 |year=2008 |display-authors=etal }}</ref>

Spanish scientists have dismissed Freund's speculations, claiming that he sensationalised their work. The anthropologist Juan Villarías-Robles, who works with the [[Spanish National Research Council]], said, "Richard Freund was a newcomer to our project and appeared to be involved in his own very controversial issue concerning King Solomon's search for ivory and gold in [[Tartessos]], the well documented settlement in the Doñana area established in the first millennium BC", and described Freund's claims as "fanciful".<ref>{{cite news|last=Owen|first=Edward|title=Lost city of Atlantis 'buried in Spanish wetlands'|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8381219/Lost-city-of-Atlantis-buried-in-Spanish-wetlands.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8381219/Lost-city-of-Atlantis-buried-in-Spanish-wetlands.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=18 March 2011|work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London|date=14 March 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

A similar theory had previously been put forward by a German researcher, Rainer W. Kühne, that is based only on satellite imagery and places Atlantis in the [[Marismas de Hinojos]], north of the city of [[Cádiz]].<ref name=Antiquity>{{cite journal|last=Kühne|first=Rainer W.|title=A location for Atlantis?|journal=Antiquity|date=June 2004|volume= 78| issue = 300|url=https://scholar.google.de/citations?view_op=view_citation&user=W_OUOaEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=W_OUOaEAAAAJ:hqOjcs7Dif8C|access-date=19 April 2015|issn=0003-598X}}</ref> Before that, the historian [[Adolf Schulten]] had stated in the 1920s that Plato had used Tartessos as the basis for his Atlantis myth.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schulten|first=Adof|title=Tartessos und Atlantis|journal=Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen|year=1927|volume=73|pages=284–288|language=de}}</ref>