{"id":1808875,"date":"2022-09-02T09:24:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1808875"},"modified":"2022-09-02T09:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:24:15","slug":"the-gough-map-and-the-lost-islands-of-cardigan-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/09\/the-gough-map-and-the-lost-islands-of-cardigan-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gough Map and the Lost Islands of Cardigan Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GoughA paper in Atlantic Geoscience<\/em><\/a> is basically arguing that the Gough Map<\/a> offers evidence that the Welsh legend of the sunken kingdom of Cantre\u2019r Gwaelod<\/a> \u2014a sort of Welsh Atlantis\u2014is real. Actually, no. Not quite. That\u2019s clickbait\u2014and the headline for the BBC News story<\/a> about the study.<\/p>\n

In their paper, the complete text of which is available online<\/a>, physical geographer Simon Haslett and professor of Celtic David Willis are trying to reconstruct the post-glacial evolution of Wales\u2019s Cardigan Bay using historical and folklore sources as well as bathymetric data and geological evidence. (It\u2019s pretty obvious which author contributed what.) The Gough Map shows two islands that don\u2019t correlate to any real island in Cardigan Bay; the study suggests that the islands may have in fact existed and have since been lost to flooding, erosion and other post-glacial changes to the shorelines. There are several submarine highs in the bay that may match up with the lost islands. The paper hypothesizes that the Cantre\u2019r Gwaelod legend is a folk memory from when the coast was much different: that there were islands in Cardigan Bay, that they disappeared during the human era, and this legend is one of their traces.<\/p>\n

In other words, a bit different from taking an old map at entirely too much face value (which, to be sure, has<\/em> been enough of a thing that it was first to mind when I saw the story). They\u2019re using the map and the legend to try and figure out the shoreline\u2019s history\u2014not using the map to prove the legend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A paper in Atlantic Geoscience is basically arguing that the Gough Map offers evidence that the Welsh legend of the sunken kingdom of Cantre\u2019r Gwaelod \u2014a sort of Welsh Atlantis\u2014is real. Actually, no. Not quite.… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,230],"tags":[431,1364,111,301],"class_list":["post-1808875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-oceans","tag-bathymetry","tag-gough-map","tag-phantom-islands","tag-wales","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1807092,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/04\/the-gough-map-and-its-ghostly-predecessor\/","url_meta":{"origin":1808875,"position":0},"title":"The Gough Map and Its Ghostly Predecessor","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"28 April 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"An update on the Gough Map Project from Bill Shannon. \u201cThe Gough Map Project has reached that \u2018interesting\u2019 stage where we are moving from either sitting on the fence and making no decisions, or making lots, but then rejecting them all. 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