UrbanPlanet.org -> Has the lost continent of Atlantis: “ONE OF the main reasons people have not recognised South America as Atlantis is that someone changed the name. That someone was the German cartographer Waldseemuller who in the early 16th century shortly after the continent was rediscovered awarded it the name of ‘America’ in honour of Amerigo Vespucci who sailed along its coastline as far south as the River Plate estuary.”
