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Hopes dashed as Google Ocean image of 'lost city of Atlantis' proves to be nothing of the sort,

For a few tantalising hours researchers appeared to have solved one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world - the location of the mythical underwater city of Atlantis.
More than 600 miles off the coast of Africa and nearly 3.5 miles below the surface lay a mysterious grid of lines and markings that closely resembled the streets of a city.

The image - discovered on the internet mapping tool Google Earth - lay in an area of the Atlantic long thought to be a possible location for the fabled lost city.

There were just two problems.

First, the grid of streets, walls and ancient buildings turned out to be the size of Wales

And second, the grid of lines doesn't actually exist on the sea floor.
According to Google, the pattern is an "artifact" of its map making process.

Details for the ocean maps on Google Earth come from sonar measurements of the sea floor recorded by boats - and the area around the Canaries was mapped by boats travelling in a series of straight lines.
The admission was a blow to Atlantis hunters who are convinced the city still lies undiscovered below the waves.

The grid can be found by anyone using the latest version of Google Earth on their computer. It lies in the Canary Basin, 620 miles west of the Canary islands, and east of the Konstantinov Ridge.

'It's true that many amazing discoveries have been made in Google Earth - a pristine forest in Mozambique that is home to previously unknown species, a fringing coral reef off the coast of Australia, and the remains of an Ancient Roman villa, to name just a few,' said a spokesman for Google.

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In this case, however, what users are seeing is an artifact of the data collection process. Bathymetric (or sea-floor terrain) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea-floor.

'The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data. The fact that there are blank spots between each of these lines is a sign of how little we really know about the world's oceans."

The perfect rectangle was spotted by a British aeronautical engineer who claimed it looked like a 'man-made aerial map' of a city.
Atlantis experts said that the unexplained grid is located at one of the possible sites of the legendary island, which was first described by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
The earliest known records of this mythical land appear in Plato's 'dialogues', Critias and Timaios.

Plato described it as an island 'larger than Libya and Asia put together'.

Sites proposed for the location of Atlantis:

Black Sea - in 2000 a town was found under 300 ft of water off the north coast of Turkey. The area is thought to have been swamped by a Biblical style great flood around 5000BC.

Minoan civilisation on Crete - a massive volcano erupted on the island of Santorini around 1600 BC, devastating the island and the coastal Minoan towns on Crete.

Cyprus - in 2004 an American architect used sonar to reveal man-made walls resembling Atlantis a mile deep in the Mediterranean between Cyprus and Syria.

Cornwall - in 1997, Russian scientists claimed to have found Atlantis 100 miles off Land's End on the Little Sole Bank.

Azores - Victorian Atlantis scholars proposed that the Azores - 900 miles west of Portugal - were the mountain tops of the fabled lost city.

Dogger Bank - Swedish researchers claimed the mythical city lay on the Dogger Bank in the North Sea which was submerged in the Bronze Age.

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