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Mythological islands are legendary places from a relatively cohesive set of myths. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
A mythical city that is said to invisibly lie between Gandara, Tarangnan, and Pagsanghan in Samar province of the Philippines. Biringan means "the black city" or the city of the Unknown in Waray. Brittia: A mythical island off the coast of Austrasia. Buyan: A mysterious island with the ability to appear and disappear using tides in Russian ...
See also References A The Abarat: 25 islands in an archipelago, one for each hour and one for all the hours, from the series The Books of Abarat by Clive Barker Absolom: a prison island in the movie Escape from Absolom Acidophilus: an island in Greece appearing in the adventure game Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal" Aepyornis Island: an atoll near Madagascar, in H. G. Wells' story by that name Al Amarja ...
Avalon, the mythical lost land or island in Arthurian, Cornish and Welsh legend. Buyan , an island with the ability to appear and disappear in Slavic mythology. Cantre'r Gwaelod , in Welsh legend, the ancient sunken realm said to have occupied a tract of fertile land lying between Ramsey Island and Bardsey Island in what is now Cardigan Bay to ...
The etymology of the names Brasil and Hy-Brasil is unknown. Despite the similarity, the name of the country Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil) has no connection to the mythical islands. The historian Walter Scaife remarked in 1890 that the toponym had something of a will-o'-the-wisp character, "for on various maps it may be seen designating a great ...
Avalon (/ ˈ æ v ə l ɒ n /) [note 1] is a mythical island featured in the Arthurian legend.It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made and later where Arthur was taken to recover from being gravely wounded at the Battle of Camlann.
Barclay Islands (the Barclays): British-dependent Caribbean archipelago off the Bahamas embroiled in conflict between Castro's Cuba and the drug trade in Frederick Forsyth's novel The Deceiver. Booty Island: a pirate island in the Caribbean Sea in the game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, part of the Tri-Island area (governed by Elaine Marley)
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as ...