The lost city of Atlantis in Tenerife

A news report today says hopes that the lost city of Atlantis had been found 600 miles west of the Canary Islands on Google Earth have been shattered. Let's face it, it doesn't take much to shatter a theory that appears in The Sun does it? :)

But I do think the hope-dashers are being somewhat hasty ...

Never mind "proof" that Tenerife has long been associated with the Atlantis myth, The Sun were probably taking as evidence the fact that the theme for Carnaval de Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1994 was La Atlántida (Atlantis).

The bloke with the BBQ fork and a liking for a Rare Blend of Whiskey, we must deduce is Poseidon, who we know was bequeathed this legendary island. And there's a striking resemblance in the volcano to the rear of the scenery too and yet still, Tenerife appears not to have grasped the implications of the story that Atlantis sank into the ocean "in a single day and night of misfortune".

(We go for News in the Sun's (not to be confused with the right-wing British tabloid) theory on the misfortune that "alien visitors stopped coming when the inter-planetary space pound lost a third of it's value against the Euro.")

Here are more photos from Carnaval in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1994