Tabor island

See also: Thabor

The island Tabor , also named reef Maria-Theresa , is a Récif Pacifique southern, between the Archipel of Tuamotu and the New Zealand. It is undoubtedly a phantom island.

Its position was announced for the first time by the November 16th 1843 by the captain Asaph P. Taber (and not Tabor ) on board the Maria-Theresa , of New Bedford in the Massachusetts with the values. In 1957, the island was required in these trimmings without success. In 1983, the position of the reef was recomputed with, more than 1.000 km more in the east, but research was once again unfruitful. Its existence is now regarded as doubtful.

Other islands were sometimes announced by error in the same area: in particular the Reef Ernest Legouvé. Still today, of the atlas indicate the reefs Maria-Theresa and Ernest Legouvé.

Literature

The island appears in the novels of Jules Verne the Children of the captain Grant and the mysterious Island .

Antipodes

The antipodean Point of the island would be with the the Middle East (but the dissensions on the real coordinates and the doubt even of its existence prevent a more precise definition)

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