Sandy Island has been drawn on maps of the southeast Pacific for over a century, but there is nothing but open water where the supposed landmass is located. It has been drawn on most navigational charts and even appeared on Google maps. Australian researches investigated the area last month and found nothing near the coordinates. Now a librarian has unraveled the mystery. The island is a mapping error that has developed over time from a marking drawn on the island's coordinates by whalers in 1876. The crew of the whaling ship The Voyager noticed that the area was a hazard to many ships so took note of the area. Since then, map illustrators have misinterpreted the area as a land mass, deceiving and disappointing map readers worldwide. Even Google believed it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/sandy-island-maps-whalers_n_2237170.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
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