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在深深的太平洋海底,存在着许许多多的秘密,因此也最易引起人们的种种猜测,其中最异想天开的,莫过于古大陆的推测。最早提出太平洋中曾有过古大陆的是英国人种学家麦克米兰·布朗。20世纪初叶,他在《太平洋之谜》一书中首次提出远古时期太平洋曾经有过一个高度文明发达的大陆。此后,有关这方面的著作屡见不鲜,以英国学者詹姆斯·乔治瓦特的研究成果最有影响力。他通过大胆的假设、广泛的调查、独到的推理勾勒出远古时期太平洋中古大陆的概貌。1931年,他的名著《消逝的大陆》在纽约出版,成为轰动一时的畅销书。此后,他陆续推出了《姆
There are so many secrets on the deep ocean floor of the Pacific that it is most likely to arouse people’s suspicions. The most whimsical is none other than the ancient continent’s speculations. The earliest proponents of the ancient continent in the Pacific were the British ethnographer, MacMillan Brown. In the early 20th century, he first proposed in the book The Mystery of the Pacific that in the ancient times there was once a highly developed continent in the Pacific. Since then, the writings of this field are not uncommon, with the most influential research achievement of British scholar James George Watt. Through bold assumptions, extensive investigations, and unique reasoning, he sketched an overview of the ancient Pacific continent in the Middle Ages. In 1931, his famous book The Disappearing Continent was published in New York City as a hit-and-miss bestseller. Since then, he launched a "m