Not to be confused with Lost lands, Ghost Island, Vanishing island, Fata Morgana (mirage), Mirage, or Null Island.
Fragment of George Powell's 1822 chart of the South Shetland Islands showing the phantom Middle Island (bottom right) in Bransfield Strait, AntarcticaThe Zeno map of 1558 showing Frisland – a phantom island in the North AtlanticThe phantom island of Kianida or Cianeis in the Black Sea on a fragment of the 1467 Nicolaus Germanus edition of Ptolemy's Geography
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. Some have remained on maps for centuries before being "un-discovered".
Unlike lost lands, which are claimed (or known) to have once existed but to have been swallowed by the sea or otherwise destroyed, a phantom island is one that is claimed to exist contemporaneously, but later found not to have existed in the first place (or found not to be an island, as with the Island of California).
A phantomisland 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...
Phantom Brave (ファントム・ブレイブ, Fantomu Bureibu) is a tactical role-playing game for the PlayStation 2 video game console, developed and published by Nippon...
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Island /ˈpiːps/ is a phantomisland, once said to lie about 230 nautical miles (260 mi; 430 km) north of the Falkland Islands at 47°S. Pepys Island is...
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Dougherty is the name of a phantomisland that was believed to be located in the extreme south of the Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between Cape Horn...
Martin Spanberg in a series of voyages in 1738, 1739, and 1742. The phantom Staten Island (Staten Eyland; French: Isle des États) still continued to appear...
Liverpool Island. He also reported having sighted another island nearby, which he named Thompson Island, but this was later shown to be a phantomisland. In...
The Rupes Nigra ("Black Rock"), a phantomisland, was believed to be a black rock located at the Magnetic North Pole or at the geographic North Pole itself...
The Island of California (Spanish: Isla de California) refers to a long-held global misconception, dating from the 16th century, that the California region...
cuisine Bacalao (phantomisland), a phantomisland depicted on several early 16th century Portuguese maps Baccalieu Island, an island by Conception Bay...
lost lands, as have subaltern peoples such as the Tamils in India. Phantomislands, as opposed to lost lands, are land masses formerly believed by cartographers...
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...
USA Emerald Island (phantom), a phantomisland reported by some early explorers to lie between Australia and Antarctica St. John's Island, Egypt, also...
called Frischlant, Friesland, Frislanda, Frislandia, or Fixland, is a phantomisland that appeared on virtually all of the maps of the North Atlantic from...
Danny Phantom is an American animated superhero action adventure television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. The series premiered on April...
San Carlos ("Saint Charles's Island", the patron saint of Charles III of Spain) or Isla de David (probably the phantomisland of Davis Land; sometimes translated...
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The Aurora Islands was a group of three phantomislands first reported in 1762 by the Spanish merchant ship Aurora while sailing from Lima to Cadiz. The...
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