Comments on: Discovered: A sunken island, an Indian Ocean Atlantis?

By: crackerhead

crackerhead — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:00:51 +0000

it is under water ! with sea level rise it will make prime real estate ! reserve my condo with snorkel !

By: durai

durai — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:28:02 +0000

i dont want to hurt any otheres belives but i want to reply the commmend made by Mr.21st century fox. If u belive it or not the historian will name it as lemuria or Kumari kandam. History will reveal it was a part of dravidian culture. perhaps srilanka and even upto austraia. I pray god the that further part of the land should not be sink due to sea level rise.

By: Laughing Sudda

Laughing Sudda — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:17:46 +0000

With Tamil Tigers on the verge of being militarily beaten, Sri Lankan nationalists will soon need new enemies and new sources of danger, threat and conspiracy. The Sinhalese are very good conspiracy theorists. So yes, you must go ahead with your territorial claim to Irisiyawa, and make sure that no other country or race can get anywhere close to the sunken island. Who knows perhaps you Sinhalese can sink with it…

By: K.Margiani

K.Margiani — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:31:18 +0000

Atlantis is discovered long ago!
http://www.cosmogeology.ge/chapter.htm
http://www.cosmogeology.ge/chapter-25.htm
Global catastrophic plate tectonics 12,500Â± years’ ego could change isostatic balance between main platforms and slabs. East coastal zone of Northern America and west coastal zone of Africa have been sunken. Simultaneously ten island of Atlantis: Huge Poseidia, two small islands (Pluto, Ammon [mu]) and seven smaller Persephone’s islands were sunken into the ocean as well!

By: 21st Century Fox

21st Century Fox — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:55:26 +0000

Thank you for carrying this story. I urge the Sri Lanka Navy and the government to move quickly to claim Irisiyawa as part of Sri Lankan territory. Cula Vamsa’s references would help, but possession is nine tenths of ownership. Now that the Tigers are all but beaten, our Navy could reallocate some of its resources for patrolling the ocean where the sunken island is located. We must do it before Tamils/Indians claim it as their Kumari Kandam!

By: Bumused in Atlantis

Bumused in Atlantis — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:55:47 +0000

Carl Martin, Google cannot show what is submerged. Any remote sensing and image mapping system can pick up whatever is visible on the surface as seen from earth orbit (or a mapping aircraft).

But I agree, it would have been helpful if the depth was mentioned. Perhaps that has not yet been established? There are few online references yet to the ancient ship wreck discovered off Godavaya, and these too don’t mention the depth.

By: Arjuna Mendis

Arjuna Mendis — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:29:54 +0000

Hmm… its about time..

By: Carl Martin

Carl Martin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:58:53 +0000

I looked on the Google map of that area of the Indian Ocean and I don’t see anything that suggests submerged landmass. I wish the article indicated the average or minimum depth of this landmass. I have to agree with Dulan; this looks like an “April Fool’s” joke.

By: Bumused in Atlantis

Bumused in Atlantis — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:08:35 +0000

Is this Hem Goon for real? He either lacks any sense of humour or is so tightly focused on his ‘Sinhala Buddhist glory’ that he can’t see anything else in any other way. Everything to him is a threat or conspiracy. This is the kind of insular, insecure pettiness that has wrecked Sri Lanka and this is why we remain stuck in history, unable to move into the 21st century. Other goons in government would no doubt resonate what Hem Goon says!

By: dilsiri welikala

dilsiri welikala — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:33:23 +0000

Very interesting.

By: Shaq

Shaq — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:05:04 +0000

I pity the writer who took such an effort to put together nonsense… Think about the wonderful things he could have done with that time instead…. [Edited out]

By: Hem Goon

Hem Goon — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:03:47 +0000

This discovery is further evidence that in historic and pre-historic times, Sri Lanka had much greater standing in the world. Few scholars have bothered to study in sufficient depth and detail our island’s foreign relations in the past, which were on entirely different terms, and altogether better than the present when the west still treats us as if we were a colony. This lack of scholarly interest and evidence is not surprising given that we are only just raising our heads after full 500 years of colonial interference and subjugation (1505 – 2005) which ended only when Mahinda Rajapaksha was elected president.

I have one concern about the maritime archaeological work being carried out in Godavaya, Galle and other parts of the south: why are Dutch and Belgian scientists involved? Can we trust them not to tamper with or destroy the emerging evidence for our glorious Sinhala Buddhist civilisation? We need to be very, very careful. Granting of visas for these scholars must be carefully monitored. Although we are finally free from colonialism, the west has not stopped trying to undermine and destroy us.

By: Foodie

Foodie — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:10:28 +0000

So (according to Wikipedia), Irisiyawa is smaller than Rusiyawa (Russia)…

Good to know…

By: Dulan

Dulan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:02:00 +0000

And I wonder what day it is today…?