Atlantis

   From Greek mythology, this island was the home of an advanced culture that was destroyed by a giant tsunami. This island was originally placed in the mid-Atlantic, but current research believes Atlantis to be the island of Santorini (also called Thera), in the Mediterranean. This volcanic island was almost totally destroyed during an explosive eruption in about 1500 BC. At the time of the eruption, the city of Cnossus was on the island, but it too was destroyed.