Phantom island

Phantom islands are islands that are believed to exist and appear on maps for a period of time (sometimes centuries), and then are removed after they are proven not to exist (or the general population stops believing that they exist).

Some phantom islands arose through the mislocation of actual islands: for instance, Pepys Island was actually a misidentification of the Falkland Islands. California appears on some early maps as an island, but was later discovered to be attached to the mainland of North America. Others appear to have always been mythical, while a few may have seen actual islands or sand banks which are no longer above water.

As opposed to Phantom Islands, Lost Lands are islands or continents believed by some to have existed during pre-history, but to have disappeared as a result of catastrophic geological phenomena or slowly rising sea levels since the end of the last Ice Age.

List of phantom islands

*Antillia (The Island of the Seven Cities)
*Aurora Islands
*Avalon
*Bacalao
*Baltia
*Bra
*Brazil (Hy-Brazil/Hi-Breasail)
*St Brendan's Island
*Buss Island
*Buyan
*Island of California
*Caravanserralius Island
*Isle of Demons
*Dougherty
*Drogeo
*Ernest Legouve Reef
*Estotiland
*Ferdinandea Island
*Flyaway Islands
*Frisland
*Great Ireland (Irland it mikla), also known as White men's land (Hvitra mannaland).
*Groclant
*Hunter Island
*Icaria
*Jupiter Reef
*Isle of Mam
*Lomea
*Marcy's Island
*Maria Laxara
*Maria Theresa Reef
*Mayda
*Morrell Island and Byers Island, west of Hawaii
*Pepys Island
*Île Philippaux
*Podesta
*Punic Brazil cape
*Rangitiki
*Roca Island
*Rocabarraigh
*Rupes Nigra
*Sannikov Land, north of the New Siberian Islands
*Satanzes
*Saxemberg
*Schjetman Reef
*Roca Island
*Snakes Islands
*Sarah Ann
*Taprobana
*Terra Australis
*Thompson Island
*Thule
*Torca Island
*Tyno Helig
*Vinland
*Wachusett Reef

See also

* Lost cities
* Mythical place
* Fictitious entry

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