Pepys island
The island Pepys is a phantom island which was supposed being located at 230 miles in the north of the Falkland Islands. It was described by Ambrose Cowley in 1684 which probably confused with the coordinates of one of the Falkland Islands and the name of Samuel Pepys gave him, Secrétaire of admiralty.
Many forwardings tried to locate the island during the XVIIIème century. Some as John Byron then identified it like one of the Falkland Islands, but of others like Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, Lord Anson and Cook continued to seek until in the years 1780. The log book of Cowley was found and one realized error then.
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