The Lost Continent 遗失的大陆-22

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Based in Tobay, England, Jim Allen is a former aerial photography analyst¹ for the British Royal Air Force. And it is by analyzing² aerial photography that Jim Allen believes he has discovered one of the lost continent’s most distinctive³ landmarks-the vast irrigated⁴ flood plain of Atlantis.

Many people talk about Atlantis, a lost continent city, whatever you want to call it. But nobody bothers to talk about the rectangular plain and the large part of Plato’s story is, is a very geographic⁵ description of this actual area.

Jim Allen believes the continent of Atlantis was actually South America. High upon the rugged⁶ flood plain in Bolivia called the Alti Plano, Jim thinks he has found the plain which Plato described.

There was a plain said to have been the fairest of all plains and very fertile. It was smooth and even, and of oblong shape, and canals of a hundred feet were cut through it.

Could the Alti Plano of Bolivia really have been the plain of Atlantis? Despite several expeditions, Jim has found concrete proof elusive⁷. And academic experts refuse to even examine his ideas.

Though some time ago I wrote to the leading archeologist in Cambridge who is head of a Cambridge College. And he returned all my material unexamined and he wrote 'Atlantis is a subject in which I have never been interested.' And I think that reflects the archeological opinion around the world.


Undeterred, Jim hopes that advances in technology will eventually force skeptical⁸ experts to sit up and take notice of what he believes is a watertight theory.

Modern technology, satellite mapping which is only available in last 20 or 30 years shows we can prove quite positively⁹ this is the irrigated rectangular plain that Plato talked about.

Jim Allen is not alone in hoping that modern technology will reveal the location of the lost continent.

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oblong shape: n. 长方形
elusive: adj. 逃避的不易被抓获、觉察、理解或记忆的
undeterred: adj. 未被吓住的
watertight: adj. 无懈可击的