Atlantis in southeast Alaska

Fri, March 21, 2008 
Posted in Alaska News

Scientists are finding strong evidence that Southeast Alaska’s outer coast used to have another layer of islands and peninsulas. They rose up as advancing ice-age glaciers pushed a bulge of land ahead of them as much as 15,000 years ago. And the now-sunken ground could harbor hidden evidence of the region’s first human inhabitants.

Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska - Juneau

 
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