Wouldn’t it be odd had the Atlantic ocean been named for a mere fable, Atlantis named for Atlas? Did Plato’s story about Atlantis really have that much sway in western Europe that the Atlantic would be named for a supposedly mythological maritime empire? Plato did not name the Atlas mountains which were named by those in northwestern Africa, Atlanteans, see Page at right Mystery Atlantis Unmasked to flesh it all out, to see that Atlantis was an Ice Age empire after Noah’s Flood.