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Some may have been purely mythical, such as the Isle of Demons near Newfoundland, which may have been based on local legends of a haunted island.The far-northern island of Thule was reported to exist by the 4th-century BC Greek explorer Pytheas, but information about its purported location was lost; explorers and geographers since have speculated that it was the Shetland Islands, Iceland ...
Antillia (or Antilia) is a phantom island that was reputed, during the 15th-century age of exploration, to lie in the Atlantic Ocean, far to the west of Portugal and Spain. The island also went by the name of Isle of Seven Cities ( Ilha das Sete Cidades in Portuguese , Isla de las Siete Ciudades in Spanish ).
A local stamp of Greenland 1936, inscribed Thule. In 1775, during his second voyage, Captain Cook named an island in the high southern latitudes of the South Atlantic Ocean, Southern Thule. The name is now used for a group of three southernmost islands in the South Sandwich Islands, one of which is called Thule Island.
2 Mythical or phantom islands. 3 See also. ... The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. ... Thule; See also
Thule (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Phantom islands of the Atlantic Ocean" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Articles relating to the island of Thule and its depictions, the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography.By the Late Middle Ages and the early modern period, the Greco-Roman Thule was often identified with the real Iceland or Greenland.
Frisland was shown as a roughly rectangular island, with three triangular promontories on its western coast. In some mappings, it is identified as "Fixland". [4] (Matteo Prunes map of 1553, from Library of Congress, see upper right of map; see also, [5] page 88 for other clearer source; see also Catalan map of 1480 showing "Fixland"; [6] original source map copied in this article, page 64.
The Southern Thule group consists of three islands, the southern-most pair Thule Island and Cook Island, and the smaller Bellingshausen Island to their northeast. [6] They rise from an east-west trending [7] wave-cut platform on top of a broad submerged volcano with a width of 30 kilometres (19 mi), [8] and a length of 63 kilometres (39 mi) at 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) depth.