Interesting if true, but worth keeping in mind that there are a lot of Atlantis hypotheses (even assuming it isn't a fictional or amalgamated story), and this one in particular has been a line of inquiry over the past decade or so without a lot of consensus as far as I can tell. Wikipedia has some links to previous proposals of this location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location_hypotheses_of_Atlantis...

Hasn't it been demonstrated very thoroughly that Atlantis was a hypothetical city Plato & co. used in their dialogues, and was never meant to be considered as a physical place?

I thought I read that once before too, but haven't been able to dig up the source. Do you recall where you heard this from?

Or, more likely, "a" lost city. There are a lot of those, you know. Just because it's near the Straights of Gibraltar does not make it "Atlantis", tribute cities or no.

The dunes of the beach there are impressive:

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=Do%C3%B1a+An...

Ugh, not liking these shallow geewhiz articles of late.

So flag them.

Some of the video of the Japanese tsunami made me immediately think of Atlantis. A person seeing such things 4000 years ago may well have described it as "swolled by the sea".