A really well made piece on an interesting subject! I'd like to see more stuff like this.

Fascinating. Highlights the importance of oral tradition and culture.

It’s a balance between “science corroborating oral history”, and “oral history informing scientific inquiry”. Ownership of the “truth” is often the basis of moral power and determinism. It cuts both ways and needs to be subject to constant challenge to avoid dogma.

Aboriginal Australians have oral legend about land that is now the Coral Sea, with detailed information about its features which are now reefs, that means that this information has been carried for at least 12,000 years, so a few hundred years is easy.

I used to work in bathymetric survey. Seeing the reporter draw on the bathy chart with red Sharpy made me flinch 😫

A similar natural event highly likely happened to Hawaiki. Can't be found on a map yet my ancestors voyaged to Aotearoa from there.

Some of the aboriginal oral history has been proven to based in fact. One story (I think in Queensland) has been shown to be telling the story of a specfic sea flood some thousands of years ago. What fascinates me is how little the stories seem to change over so many generation's that actual history can be found and proven.

Many people don't dismiss biblical stories why should we dismiss oral Histories of Pacific nations?

using science to corroborate oral history is a thought provoking cocept

I agree that we should consider the stories of our forebears! I reckon the disappearance of Atlantis (an even older memory of our ancestors) had more to do with the isostatic (post-glacial) rebounding of the land under the Laurentide Ice Sheet. As the ice melted, the rebounding could have caused isostatic depression or some sort of of corresponding drawing-down force on the Mid-Atlantic. Simply put, with the great weight removed, the north of North America went up and the Azores area went down. Atlantis disappeared not so much from sea level rise but from land level fall. Maybe this happened slowly, but - if the stories are to be believed - it could have happened suddenly if the North American rebound was also sudden, as it would be from a hypothesised comet impact on the glacier. It was strange commenting on an ABC video. How gracious of you to enable comments!

2:30 you know 9 meters isn't that deep you could dive the location with cameras and find it

Tolkien said that many old wives tales are stories the wise should have remembered

You need to investigate Hy Brasil next. An island off the west coast of Ireland that is shown on old maps, and even on old globes in the Vatican. The island does not exist today

Out of curiosity and nothing else. Why didn't scientist believe oral stories. Facts for example easy ones. 1. We know mount Gambia an Mount Shank use to be inhabited by Aboriginals. They stated what happened in their oral history. An we know Mount Gambier errupted about 10,000 years ago an Mount Shank Errupted about 5000 years ago. Mount Shank being the most recent in Australian history on the mainland. 2. We know 13,000 years ago there was a melting of the ice age which caused a massive world wide flood. This drowned Dwarka a Indian religiously important city an every culture on Earth had a flood story even the Aboriginals. So we know this actually happened. 3. We know a City called Atlantis existed at one point was likely a trade island in the Greek archipelago which probably errupted an flattened the island leaving no trace of its existence. Yes i will conceed the story puts it closer to Africa but what African city has ever had a Greek name so i don't agree with that. 4. Troy once thought a Myth proven to exist. 5. Jericho thought o be a myth proven to exist an have its walls crumbled or been climbed over. So again with all this evidence showing over 5 cases or stories proven true. Which is a gold standard in evidence based practice. How can anyone dismiss a story told in oral tradition.

Finally get to comment on a abc news video

Great work

This is why i trust oral traditional cultures more than contemporary ones.

I adore the ABC - what an amazing piece. Thanks.

Great story, good work restoring the history

The part of the story that mentioned the giant waves backs up the geologic slippage. The vast quantity of falling debris creates a surge of water. If the island came apart in eight breaks, there would have been eight big waves of water surging up.

Excellent video

They might want to send a Sonar Device down to where the island is as I think there is more going on than what is told, like a giant lava tube and such

Fascinating video.❤

Some Maori settlers (NZ) came directly from islands that sank or were sinking.

Beautiful people. Thank God they made it off the island. Such a tale to pass on. And sharing it with all of us.

Don't believe that it sank at once. And therefore people left before it desappeared.

Great to see Professor Paddy Nunn still doing what he loves!

Im the kind of guy that could live in a culture like this

"I think there's a tendency for western science and historians to dismiss these things as kind of fantasy as myth or legend" Completely incorrect in Modernity. Maybe historically people would dismiss local legend and myth, But nowdays the FIRST thing historians do in those parts of the world is seek out the stories and oral histories for analysis. Almost all Historians agree that Myth and Legend can often be rooted in reality, There's a whole science called Comparative mythology that's been employed for decades as a tool for analysis and academic purposes. The great tragedy about the Solomons is much of the Oral History was lost during the period where the Europeans pillaged the islands for Slaves. It's essential that those remaining stories are sought out before they disappear.

Or the island's disappearance could be explained by several tsunami.

I didn't know a island could sink. I thought volcano

A memory and a oral story. Are not the same. For it to be a memory. Someone must have survived it to remember it.

Facinating.

Perhaps this is what happened to Atlantis.

If it's FOUND, it's not MYTHICAL, it's FACTUAL. Simple ideas for the simple-minded.

Shangrila shambala must be research

Thats wacky. Nine meters to Six kilometers. Im American so whats that like 3 cubits to a half a parsec?

Does that mean the Solomon Islands are unstable?

Can you do one on the ancient aryan story of Atlantis please?

If only the rest of the ABC had some substance to it..

I’m surprised they didn’t try to blame this on climate change. 🙄

They dont vanished but rejected collonials country😂

also rising sea levels.

So is this where the missing Malaysian flight landed ?

So narcissistic to kill everyone just because your wife left you!!!

You cant loose an island, nor find a lost one 😂

It’s always over a woman ain’t it. 😂

The story sounds fake its as if sank overnight.. Its very gradual to a point that u can have enough time to leave safely

fasinating! Oral histories are often ridiculed, but this sex scandal might be within days of disaster thus attributed! wonder what deviations or other stories there are.

Western science finally catching up 🙄 still told with an under current of condescension, with the added total and complete disrespect of absolutely zero attempt to pronounce place names in our languages correctly.

....and as always, it's the woman's fault, lol.... Scientists need to pay more attention to oral history. The Innu knew for centuries where the ships of the Franklin expedition sank, and told tales of it in their oral history, but it wasn't until quite recently that The Erebus and The Terror were found, thanks to scientists finally listening.

It's called the act of God, he can do all and he can destroy all that he's created, always believe in the Holy Father, God bless all of us in the world we call home together ✝️🇺🇸❤️

The Whole World reports such an Island that vanishes & not surprising & God Bless Australia & New Zealand & Everyone who Loves Jesus Christ Who Wants to Save ❤