The ‘mythical’ vanished island scientists think is real | ABC News

Tolkien said that many old wives tales are stories the wise should have remembered

A really well made piece on an interesting subject! I'd like to see more stuff like this.

Aboriginal Australians have oral legend about land that is now the Coral Sea, with detailed information about its features like hills which are now reefs and small islands, that means that this information has been carried for at least 12,000 years, so a few hundred years is easy.

Some of the aboriginal oral history has been proven to based in fact. One story (I think in Queensland) has been shown to be telling the story of a specfic sea flood some thousands of years ago. What fascinates me is how little the stories seem to change over so many generation's that actual history can be found and proven.

It’s a balance between “science corroborating oral history”, and “oral history informing scientific inquiry”. Ownership of the “truth” is often the basis of moral power and determinism. It cuts both ways and needs to be subject to constant challenge to avoid dogma.

Fascinating. Highlights the importance of oral tradition and culture.

A similar natural event highly likely happened to Hawaiki. Can't be found on a map yet my ancestors voyaged to Aotearoa from there.

I used to work in bathymetric survey. Seeing the reporter draw on the bathy chart with red Sharpy made me flinch 😫

Many people don't dismiss biblical stories why should we dismiss oral Histories of Pacific nations?

You need to investigate Hy Brasil next. An island off the west coast of Ireland that is shown on old maps, and even on old globes in the Vatican. The island does not exist today

using science to corroborate oral history is a thought provoking cocept

The part of the story that mentioned the giant waves backs up the geologic slippage. The vast quantity of falling debris creates a surge of water. If the island came apart in eight breaks, there would have been eight big waves of water surging up.

2:30 you know 9 meters isn't that deep you could dive the location with cameras and find it

A memory and a oral story. Are not the same. For it to be a memory. Someone must have survived it to remember it.

Great work

So interestimg how a myth or legend gets created. The whole backstory on how it got sunken, is such an insite to how myths are created.

Excellent video

Great story, good work restoring the history

I agree that we should consider the stories of our forebears! I reckon the disappearance of Atlantis (an even older memory of our ancestors) had more to do with the isostatic (post-glacial) rebounding of the land under the Laurentide Ice Sheet. As the ice melted, the rebounding could have caused isostatic depression or some sort of of corresponding drawing-down force on the Mid-Atlantic. Simply put, with the great weight removed, the north of North America went up and the Azores area went down. Atlantis disappeared not so much from sea level rise but from land level fall. Maybe this happened slowly, but - if the stories are to be believed - it could have happened suddenly if the North American rebound was also sudden, as it would be from a hypothesised comet impact on the glacier. It was strange commenting on an ABC video. How gracious of you to enable comments!

Beautiful people. Thank God they made it off the island. Such a tale to pass on. And sharing it with all of us.