lost landsA fact sheet on the dubios

l o s t lands

Through reading the book ‘Discovering Local History’, David Iredale and John Barrett, which explains how extensive research has been undertaken to help shape and explain the lands we now live on and how they once were. Throughout reading this, I kept envisaging how this could be used in another sense, or if this research could have been conducted on places that once did, or maybe never existed at all. Be it by catastrophe or fiction, I want to explore lands lost to the world.

L o s t l a n d s c a n b e d e s c r i b e d a s c o n t i n e n t s , i s l a n d s o r o t h e r r e g i o n s b e l i e v e d t o h a v e s i n c e d i s a p p e a r e d a s a r e s u l t o f c a t a s t r o p h i c g e o l o g i c a l p h e n o m e n a o r s l o w l y r i s i n g s e a l e v e l s s i n c e t h e e n d o f t h e l a s t i c e a g e . L o s t l a n d s , w h e r e t h e y e x i s t e d , a r e s u p p o s e d t o h a v e s u b s i d e d i n t o t h e s e a , l e a v i n g b e h i n d o n l y a f e w t r a c e s o r l e g e n d s . T h e t e r m c a n a l s o b e e x t e n d e d t o m y t h o l o g i c a l l a n d s g e n e r a l l y , t o u n d e r g r o u n d c i v i l i z a t i o n s , o r e v e n t o w h o l e p l a n e t s . T h e c l a s s i f i c a t i o n o f l o s t l a n d s a s c o n t i n e n t s , i s l a n d s , o r o t h e r r e g i o n s i s i n s o m e c a s e s s u b j e c t i v e ; f o r e x a m p l e , A t l a n t i s i s v a r i o u s l y a s e i t h e r a l o s t l a n d o r l o s t c o n t i n e n t s . L o s t l a n d t h e o r i e s m a y o r i g i n a t e i n m y t h o l o g y o r p h i l o s o p h y , o r i n s c h o l a r l y o r s c i e n t i f i c t h e o r i e s o f g e o l o g y . F o r t h e p u r p o s e o f t h i s b o o k , I w i l l b e l o o k i n g i n t o s e e k i n g d a t a i n t o t h e w i d e s t s p e c t r u m o f t h e w o r l d s , i n c l u d i n g a l l t h o s e d e e m e d t o b e r e a l , t h o s e m y t h s a n d t h o s e o n l y h y p o t h e t i c a l . T h e f o l l o w i n g p a g e s s h a l l b e a b r i e f f a c t s h e e t , h o w e v e r y o u i n t e r p r e t t h a t , o n m y f i n d i n g s .

Motopia

Date: 1960Location: 17 m west of LondonCost: £103,81,05,00Population: 30,000Size: 4.04686 km²

Motopia

Date: 9,600 BCLocation: DisputedPopulation: N/ASize: 934.92 km²

ATLANTIS

Date: 9,600 BCLocation: DisputedPopulation: N/ASize: 934.92 km²

ATLANTIS

Date: 60 MaLocation: South-West Pacific Ocean

Population: 4,685,000Size: 3,500,000 km²

Ridge height: 1,000-1,500 m

zealandia

zealandia

Doggerland

DoggerlandDate: 6,500 BCLocation: North-West EuropeSize: 46,620 km²Depth: 120 m

lost lands