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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 reports of early sailors exploring new regions, and are commonly the result of navigational errors, mistaken observations, unverified misinformation, or deliberate fabrication.
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).
The Zeno map showing Frisland to the lower left Frisland detail from Mercator's 1623 Arctic map. Frisland, also called Frischlant, Friesland, Frislanda, Frislandia, or Fixland, is a phantom island that appeared on virtually all of the maps of the North Atlantic from the 1560s through the 1660s.
The evidence against the authenticity of the map is based largely on the appearance of many phantom islands in the North Atlantic and off the coast of Iceland. [19] [20] One of these non-existent islands was Frisland, where the Zeno brothers allegedly spent some time.
1909 search for Nimrod Group and other phantom islands Historic Antarctic map of 1912 with "Nimrod Gruppe". The Nimrod Islands were a group of islands first reported in 1828 by Captain Eilbeck of the ship Nimrod while sailing from Port Jackson around Cape Horn.
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 centuries. [1] Despite being located somewhat precisely in relation to neighboring islands by notable Spanish cartographers of the 16th century, [2] the island was not found in a 1997 survey, [3] nor in an extensive 2009 study conducted by the ...
The classification of lost lands as continents, islands, or other regions is in some cases subjective; for example, Atlantis is variously described as either a "lost island" or a "lost continent". Lost land theories may originate in mythology or philosophy , or in scholarly or scientific theories, such as catastrophic theories of geology .
Phantom islands of the Atlantic Ocean (1 C, 24 P) S. Phantom subantarctic islands (11 P) Pages in category "Phantom islands" The following 29 pages are in this ...