A phantom island is a purported island which was included on maps for a period of time, but was later found not to exist. They usually originate from the...
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Bacalao, Bacallao, or Terra do Bacalhau was a phantom island depicted on several early 16th century Portuguese maps and nautical charts. The name is a...
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The Emerald Island is a phantom island reported to lie between Australia and Antarctica and south of Macquarie Island. It was first sighted by the British...
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Phantom Ship is a small island in Crater Lake in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is a natural rock formation pillar which derives its name from its resemblance...
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Island /ˈpiːps/ is a phantom island, once said to lie about 230 nautical miles (260 mi; 430 km) north of the Falkland Islands at 47°S. Pepys Island is...
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Sandy Island (sometimes labelled in French Île de Sable, and in Spanish Isla Arenosa) is a phantom island that was charted for over a century as being...
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Liverpool Island. He also reported having sighted another island nearby, which he named Thompson Island, but this was later shown to be a phantom island. In...
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Iturup (redirect from Staten Island (phantom island))
Martin Spanberg in a series of voyages in 1738, 1739, and 1742. The phantom Staten Island (Staten Eyland; French: Isle des États) still continued to appear...
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Phantom Brave (ファントム・ブレイブ, Fantomu Bureibu) is a tactical role-playing game for the PlayStation 2 video game console, developed and published by Nippon...
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Dougherty is the name of a phantom island that was believed to be located in the extreme south of the Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between Cape Horn...
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small group of islands in the Middendorff Bay Krusenstern Island" or "Krusenstern Reef," a phantom island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Krusenstern...
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Fata Morgana (mirage) (section Phantom islands)
Morgana Land is a phantom island in the Arctic, reported first in 1907. After an unfruitful search, it was deemed to be Tobias Island. A Fata Morgana is...
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a novel where phantom settlements become plot points The 2015 film of the same name, based on the novel Paper township Phantom island Fictitious entry...
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Bus, Buss, or Busse Island was a phantom island in the North Atlantic Ocean. It was recorded as discovered during the third expedition of Martin Frobisher...
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Podesta is a phantom island reported at 32°14′S 89°08′W / 32.233°S 89.133°W / -32.233; -89.133 by the Italian Captain Pinocchio of the vessel Barone...
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Rupes Nigra (redirect from Queen Island)
The Rupes Nigra ("Black Rock"), a phantom island, was believed to be a black rock located at the Magnetic North Pole or at the geographic North Pole itself...
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Rocabarraigh (category Phantom islands of the Atlantic Ocean)
Rocabarra or Rocabarraigh is a phantom island or rock in Scottish Gaelic myth, which is supposed to appear three times, the last being at the end of the...
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Brasil, also known as Hy-Brasil and several other variants, is a phantom island said to lie in the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland. Irish myths described...
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Frisland (category Phantom islands of the Atlantic Ocean)
called Frischlant, Friesland, Frislanda, Frislandia, or Fixland, is a phantom island that appeared on virtually all of the maps of the North Atlantic from...
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Voyage of the Zeno brothers (section Phantom islands)
the appearance of many phantom islands in the North Atlantic and off the coast of Iceland. One of these non-existent islands was Frisland, where the...
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October 29, 2024, the band made a surprise announcement of a new single, "Phantom Island". In the announcement, the band noted that the Flight b741 recording...
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Age writers have made use of lost lands, as have subaltern peoples. Phantom islands, as opposed to lost lands, are land masses formerly believed by cartographers...
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Saint Brendan's Island, also known as Saint Brendan's Isle or San Borondon, is a phantom island or mythical island, supposedly situated in the North Atlantic...
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Bermeja (redirect from Bermeja Island)
Bermeja is a phantom islet lying off the north coast of the Yucatán Peninsula according to several maps of the Gulf of Mexico from the 16th to the 20th...
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descriptions of redirect targets Phantom island – Island recorded on maps but proven nonexistent Private island – Island owned by a single private citizen...
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Emerald Isle (redirect from Emerald Island)
USA Emerald Island (phantom), a phantom island reported by some early explorers to lie between Australia and Antarctica St. John's Island, Egypt, also...
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It, a song by Erica Banks Buss Park, a park in Australia Buss Island, a phantom island in the North Atlantic Ocean Buss–Perry Aggression Questionnaire...
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Island Thompson Island was a phantom island in the South Atlantic. It was thought to be about 70 km (43 mi; 38 nmi) north-northeast of Bouvet Island,...
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Elizabeth Island, Bodesta, Pactolus Bank and some reefs have been mentioned in the past as lying near Chilean territories but they are phantom islands. Gable...
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The Aurora Islands was a group of three phantom islands first reported in 1762 by the Spanish merchant ship Aurora while sailing from Lima to Cadiz. The...
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