The Mystery of Sandy Island (New Caledonia)

[Bram Hengeveld]

Not sure if it made the news everywhere but an Australian expedition team tried to find THIS Island 1200km out of the eastern Australian shores. It was present on various older maps and even Google Maps mentions it (lol click) but they haven't found anything on those coordinates.

Its highly unlikely that this island has vanished under water recently as the ocean has a depth of over 1000m there.

Must be even a weirder place than the infamous realm of Simberia

 

[Hampus Andersson]

this has been everywhere the last few days
Atlantis is my guess

No but seriously, it sure is a bit odd that the island is there on so many maps yet it doesn´t exist.

I´d like to know how it got it´s name..

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

That its located on ancient maps I can imagine but why does Google Maps makes mention of it? I thought they only used images to make their maps.

Really weird

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Even nautical maps and some other big maps.

It´s very strange indeed. Ok if you have not recorded an island that actually exists but to record an island that never existed is pretty weird.

 

[Lee Knight]

Maybe it's like the island in Terry Pratchett's novel 'Jingo' & just bob's to the surface for a few weeks every couple of decades.....
Or it was a secret Alien base & they took it with them now that Goggle Earth had found it!

 

[Rui F. Martins]

is it possible that in all those maps they got the coordintes wrong and they are searching in the wrong place?
but as it was said google maps were supossed to use pictures for their maps, so it's really strange

 

[Omer Said]

It has turned into a Hurricane, visited USA and disappeared!

 

[Rhys Gardiner]

Very strange indeed. I wonder if the old maps featuring the island were drawn by word of mouth or actual surveying...?

 

[Knut Omdal Tveito]

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[Dennis Phelan]

Knut, you won?

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

It has turned into a Hurricane, visited USA and disappeared!

Thread can be closed. ^^ Thats the answer