by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:

It was British author James Churchward (1851-1936) who popularized the idea of a “Pacific Atlantis” with his entertaining – and almost entirely misplaced – books on that lost continent, a continent he called “Mu”, and which he located in the vast Pacific basin between Hawaii and the Australian shelf and Easter Island. Churchward was roundly opposed by most geologists, archaeologists, and scientists of his day, though like many more credible “Pacific Atlantisologists”, he argued in part from a comparison of the writing systems and linguistic resemblances of language. More recently, Polish author Igor Witkowski authored a book arguing a strong and similarly linguistically-based case that the actual population migration from Asia to the New world was not via the “land bridge” through what is now the Bering Strait, and down the coast from North to South America, but the reverse, from India, through Polynesia-Austraila, across the southern Pacific, to South America, and up that continent to North America. Others, like author-publisher David Hatcher Childress, have pointed out that the ruins in the whole Malay peninsula through the archipelago of islands from the Philippines to Indonesia, Borneo, Sumatra and to Australia point to a civilization that existed there, and that much of this was now under water. Author and researcher Graham Hancock has noted that massive underwater megalithic sites have been discovered off the coast of Japan.