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{{Short description|Fictional lost city in "The Call of Cthulhu"}} [[File:R'lyeh locations.png|upright=1.35|thumb|The location of R'lyeh given by Lovecraft was {{coord|47|9|S|126|43|W}} in the southern Pacific Ocean. August Derleth placed it at about {{coord|49|51|S|128|34|W}}. Both locations are close to the Pacific [[Pole of inaccessibility#Oceanic pole of inaccessibility|pole of inaccessibility]] or [[Point Nemo|"Nemo" point]], {{coord|48|52.6|S|123|23.6|W}}, a point in the ocean farthest from any land mass.]] '''R'lyeh''' is a fictional [[lost city]] that was first mentioned in the [[H. P. Lovecraft]] short story "[[The Call of Cthulhu]]", first published in ''[[Weird Tales]]'' in February 1928.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV11N02192802/page/n1/mode/2up Weird Tales (1928-02)]</ref> R'lyeh is a sunken city in the [[Pacific Ocean|South Pacific]] and the prison of the entity called [[Cthulhu]].
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