Phantom island

A phantom island is a island whose existence was allowed and who was mentioned on charts during a certain time (sometimes of the centuries) but which was then withdrawn from it when it was proven that it did not exist.

Origin

The origins leading to the appearance of a phantom island on the charts can be multiple. One can quote:
  • confusion with other quite real islands. For example, the island Pepys appeared following a bad identification of the Falkland Islands.
  • an incomplete knowledge of the geography of the place: the California was regarded as an island before it is discovered that it is connected to the continent of North America.
  • a bad perenniality of discovered in time: Perhaps Thulé was discovered with and was then lost; it was réidentifiée thereafter by the explorers and the geographers with the the Shetland, the Iceland and the Scandinavia, more precisely the Hålogaland which is the part more Septentrional E of the Norway.
  • an old island or a Sand bank absorbed by the floods.
  • a place which purely and simply never existed.

List

See too

Internal bonds

  • Quoted lost

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