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The good ship Atlantis, an oceanographic research vessel, was back in Woods Hole, Mass, last week, after two months of seagoing mountaineering. Purpose of the voyage: to study the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the submerged mountain range that divides the Atlantic Ocean-from Iceland almost to Antarctica. The range breaks the...
No Continent Lost. The Atlantis (jointly sponsored by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Columbia University and the National Geographic Society) was equipped with sonic depth-finders, seismographs and other up-to-date gadgets of sea-bottom exploration. Most promising work was done by dredges, which brought up samples of rock...
In spite of its romantic name, the Atlantis did not search for relics of lost Atlantis, the fabled continent which the ancient Greeks believed sank beneath the Atlantic Ocean thousands of years ago. Most geologists do not take the Atlantis myth seriously.
When the rocks brought back by the Atlantis are properly studied, they may prove that: 1) the Ridge was once part of the original continental mass, before the continents parted company; or 2) the underwater range is a young mountain system, slowly rising in the widening gap between the continents...
Added to any legal furry over the base, the danger of the ice melting and consigning Little America and future neighboring communities to an Atlantis like fate in Davy Jones's locker is at least a possibility. Meanwhile, the U. S. acknowledges the Autaretic claims of no other government, says...