‘Lost’ continents and islands – land masses that no longer exist, having sunk beneath the surface of the sea – have long been discussed in literature. As fictional places, they can be settings for paradise or for hell; as hypotheses for the origins of known human cultures, they have the advantage of no longer being available for inspection and so can be populated by all manner of people with any variety of culture that takes the writer’s fancy.

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