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Many scientific maps, as well as weather maps used by the Southern Surveyor, an Australian maritime research vessel, also placed the island there, according to Maria Seton, the chief geologist at the University of Sydney who led the expedition. Local weather maps placed it 700 miles from the coast of Brisbane, Australia. It also does not appear on French maps from 2000. PHOTOS: The World's Most Romantic Islandsįrom 1967, The Times Atlas of the World identified the phantom isle, in the supposedly French territorial waters, as Sable Island, but was among few publications to remove it from the map, when it got new bathymetric data in 1999.
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Sandy Island has been featured in various publications, even the most authoritative sources, for at least 116 years and, according to Jethro Lennox, a publisher of The Times Atlas of the World, "back in the 19th century, cartographers would gather their information from various sources like explorers or even sailors, so you could never have a perfect map." The phantom Manhattan-size island in the Coral Sea was shown as Sandy Island on Google Earth, sized about 15 miles by three miles on Google Maps, and halfway between Australia and the French New Caledonia.
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"It reminded me of the hypernatural island in the "Lost" TV series." "It raises all kinds of conspiracy theories," expedition member Steven Micklethwaite said, adding that the CIA is among the sources of the world coastline database. 23, 2012 - Sandy Island was nowhere to be found when Australian scientists reached the South Pacific location where it appeared on Google Earth, nautical charts and world maps.