phantom island

vanishedone 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. Jun 3, 2009