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[[File:Lemuria1.jpg|thumb | [[File:Lemuria1.jpg|thumb|Map showing Lemuria at its greatest extent, from ''The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria'', by W. Scott Elliot. The maps in this book were based on originals that Theosophist Charles W. Leadbeater had studied in the retreats of the masters.]] | ||
[[File:Lemuria2.jpg|thumb | [[File:Lemuria2.jpg|thumb|Map showing Lemuria in a later time period, from ''The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria''. According to Scott-Elliot, a series of cataclysms preceded the final sinking of the continent.]] | ||
[[File:Lemuria3.jpg|thumb | [[File:Lemuria3.jpg|thumb|Map showing Atlantis at its greatest extent and a smaller Lemurian continent in what is now the Pacific Ocean, from ''The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria''.]] | ||
[[File:LemuriaMapChurchward.jpeg|thumb | [[File:Lemuria4.jpg|thumb|Map showing the world after the sinking of most of Lemuria, with most of Atlantis still intact, from ''The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria''.]] | ||
[[File:ELLIOT(1896) Atlantis, Map4.jpg|thumb|Map showing the world after the sinking of most of Atlantis, with the remnant known as Poseidonis still intact, from ''The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria''.]] | |||
[[File:LemuriaMapChurchward.jpeg|thumb|Map of Lemuria from ''The Lost Continent of Mu'', by James Churchward (1927). This map, based on Churchward’s reading of ancient texts, shows the continent of Lemuria as it was before its final destruction.]] | |||
'''Mu''', or '''Lemuria''', was the lost continent of the Pacific, which, according to the findings of James Churchward, archaeologist and author of ''The Lost Continent of Mu'', extended from north of Hawaii three thousand miles south to Easter Island and the Fijis and was made up of three areas of land stretching more than five thousand miles from east to west. | '''Mu''', or '''Lemuria''', was the lost continent of the Pacific, which, according to the findings of James Churchward, archaeologist and author of ''The Lost Continent of Mu'', extended from north of Hawaii three thousand miles south to Easter Island and the Fijis and was made up of three areas of land stretching more than five thousand miles from east to west. | ||