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vanishedone commented on the word phantom island
The geographical version of Lieutenant Kizhe. Strange Maps: 'I had never heard of Fagunda. A 17th-century map places it in the North Atlantic, not far from Estotiland, Bus and Frislant. These and other so-called phantom islands were a by-product of the Age of Discovery. They started out as errors of nautical observation, and lived on as cartographic misconceptions – sometimes for centuries...'
Edit: in fact, I feel a list coming on.
June 3, 2009