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  1. The cherry-picking itself is extremely obvious with even a casual glance at Plato's actual work (Kritias 113b-121c). The size of the island and its surrounding moats and ring islands is outlined at 115e-116a. There we find that the city-island's diameter is not, in fact, 127 stades, but only 27. We get the remaining 100 stades mentioned in the video by adding the entire area enclosed within the outer ring wall, mentioned in 117e, which runs through the plain and touches the sea. The presenter obviously chose to use the bigger number because it better fits his measurement of the place that he wants you to believe is Atlantis. In his presentation, he makes it appear like the 3 rings of island and moat alone would be 23.5km across; if we believe Plato, the diameter actually ought to be just 5.5km or so. The central island, according to Plato (116a), was only 1km across. This is much, much smaller than the central feature of the Richat Structure.The presenter cites Plato on the geographical features surrounding Atlantis, but here he carefully omits the numbers, which are given at 118a. Plato claims that the plain around Atlantis was more than 400km wide and stretched 600km inland from the sea. Atlantis itself, meanwhile, was only 50 stadia (some 10km) from the sea. In other words, the mountain range sheltering the plain north of Atlantis is supposed to have been hundreds of kilometers distant from the city, not directly overlooking the site, as they are at the Richat Structure. The mountains of the range were also, according to Plato, "greater in number and size and beauty than any of the mountains known today". Mauretania's highest mountain is 915m tall - less than a third the size of Mt Olympos.
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