Case file · Folklore / legend
R'lyeh, Lovecraft's sunken city
In 'The Call of Cthulhu' (published 1928) H. P. Lovecraft placed the sunken city of R'lyeh, where the monstrous Cthulhu sleeps, at 47°9′S, 126°43′W in the South Pacific.
1928 CE · -47.15, -126.72 · status: legend
The account
The spot is close to Point Nemo, the ocean point farthest from land, and not far from where NOAA located the Bloop in 1997, which fans quickly linked to Cthulhu.
The sceptical view
Fiction, though now part of internet folklore; the Bloop was an icequake.