Phantom island

Phantom islands are islands that are believed to exist and appear on maps for a period of time (sometimes centuries), and they 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 been 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 dissapeared as a result of catastrophic geological phenomena.

List of phantom islands

• Antillia (The Island of the Seven Cities)
• Aurora Islands
• Avalon
• Bacalao
• Bra
• Brazil (mythical island) (Hy-Brazil/Hi-Breasail)
• St Brendan's Island
• Buss Island
• Island of California
• Cockaigne, the "land of cakes."
• Isle of Demons
• Dougherty
• Drogeo
• Estotiland
• Flyaway Islands
• Frisland
• Great Ireland (Irland it mikla), also known as White men's land (Hvitra mannaland).
• Groclant
• Hunter Island
• Icaria
• The Lowland Hundred
• Isle of Mam
• Lomea
• Marcy's Island
• Mayda
• Morrell Island and Byers Island, west of Hawaii
• Pepys Island
• Île Philippaux
• Podesta
• Rocabarraigh
• Rupes Nigra
• Symplegades
• Sarah Ann
• Taprobana
• Terra Australis
• Tyno Helig

See also

• Lost cities
• Mythical place
• Cryptozoology