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How is it possible that the inhabitants of these islands all have the same ethnic origin, and speak almost identical languages, when they are divided by thousands of miles of ocean, and when for centuries their only form of transport was the dugout canoe? Why do the Malaccan islanders recount the same legends as the Fijians and the inhabitants of far-flung Easter Island, way off in the eastern Pacific?Sunlight at play: A heavenly greeting at Dusky Sound, New Zealand. Lemuria, of which New Zealand once formed part, may well have looked like this. These questions can be answered by looking at the nature of these peoples’ legends. In the north and south, east and west of the Pacific, they all tell the same tale: there once existed a great land, a continent that sank into the sea a long, long time ago. The highest mountain peaks of this lost continent still poke above the water. They form the many small islands on which the people saved themselves at the hour of disaster, as their homeland Lemuria disappeared beneath the waves.The legend was current in India as well. In the 19th Century, a French writer by the name of Jacolliot came across an old legend, according to which a giant continent had existed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans several hundreds of thousands of years previously, before being destroyed when geological layers broke asunder. What remained were the islands of Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and the Pacific islands (Australia and New Zealand also belonged to the lost land). Easter Islanders tell their children a very similar story. Their land was once much, much bigger, but it was sunk into the sea by Uoke because of the sins of its inhabitants.Not only legends, but the Earth itself testifies to the prior existence of a continent in the Pacific. In 1946, members of the Byrd expedition1 claimed to have discovered remains from Atlantis in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. West of South America, they had found an underwater platform that was clearly of human origin. With Atlantis being a lot better known among non-specialists than Lemuria (also known as ‘Mu’), of which the members of the Byrd expedition obviously were not aware, they believed they had found Atlantean remains. The fact is that they had found an artificial structure – which couldn’t possibly have had a natural origin – in the area once occupied by Lemuria.Some years later, in 1965/66, a scientific expedition set out along the Peruvian coast aboard the Anton Brunn research ship. Robert J. Menzie, head of the oceanography department at Duke University, was, along with other specialists, making images of the ocean floor. Fifty miles west of Callao, above the 2,000m deep Milne-Edwards Trench, they took a whole series of underwater photographs showing the remains of a sunken city. Stone statues covered with hieroglyphs can be quite clearly made out amidst the mud of the ocean floor. Newspaper reports also indicated that sonar soundings had picked out hills that were identified as more ruins.It’s not just at sea that remains of the sunken continent have been found. On November 8th 1938, a news bulletin in New York announced the astonishing discovery of a 40 ton monolith. Unearthed during a two-year expedition by the Fahrestack brothers to the Fijian island of Vanua Levu, the monolith was engraved with an unknown script. This ‘archaeological puzzle’ remains unexplained.Still, the most famous and most puzzling witnesses to an unknown, ancient culture are undoubtedly the gigantic statues of Easter Island. “We could hardly conceive how these islanders, wholly unacquainted with any mechanical power, could raise such stupendous figures, and afterwards place the large cylindric stones upon their heads”, noted Captain Cook in his journal, after reaching the isolated island in March 1774. There are more than 250 of these giant, mysterious heads in total, scattered across the island or lying in the crater of the extinct volcano where they were carved. Over the la...