Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sandy Island (sometimes labelled in French Île de Sable, and in Spanish Isla Arenosa) is a phantom island that was charted for over a century as being located near the French territory of New Caledonia between the Chesterfield Islands and Nereus Reef in the eastern Coral Sea. [1]
Last year, a group of Australian researchers "undiscovered" an island the size of Manhattan in the South Pacific. A mysterious place called Sandy Island had popped up on maps,...
Discover Sandy Island in Sandy Island: This phantom island appeared on maps for over a century before amateur radio enthusiasts beat Google Earth to the punch in its "undiscovery.".
Labeled Sandy Island (or sometimes Île de Sable), this tiny islet had been presumed to lie within French territorial waters for centuries.
However, one of the most bewildering finds on Google Maps remains Sandy Island — a Manhattan-sized piece of land in the South Pacific between Australia and New Caledonia "undiscovered" by scientists ten years ago.
THERE’S a “phantom island” off the coast of Australia that lives as a ghost on Google Maps — and it has experts baffled. The mysterious Sandy Island has been charted since 1774 as being located new New Caledonia in the South Pacific, but you won’t find it in Google Maps today.
The supposed Sandy Island in the Coral Sea, depicted on Google Earth and Google Maps between Australia and New Caledonia, couldn’t be found by Australian scientists during a recent geological expedition.