Australian scientists who sailed during a 25-day trip in the eastern Coral Sea, positioned midway between Australia and French-governed New Caledonia, onboard the RV Southern Surveyor, Australia’s Marine National Facility research vessel, in search of the landmass known as Sandy Island, after spotting it on Google Earth, found nothing but blue ocean.
The depth of the ocean is around 1,400 meters at Sandy Island’s coordinates.
They have found an island that doesn’t exist but it exist on marine charts, world maps and even on the Times Atlas as well as the island regularly appeared in scientific publications since at least 2000.
Australia’s Hydrographic Service, which produces the country’s nautical charts, says its appearance on some scientific maps and Google Earth could just be the result of human error, repeated down the years.
A spokesman from the service told Australian newspapers that while some map makers intentionally include phantom streets to prevent copyright infringements, that was not usually the case with nautical charts because it would reduce confidence in them.
A spokesman for Google said they consult a variety of authoritative sources when making their maps. ”The world is a constantly changing place, the Google spokesman told AFP, “and keeping on top of these changes is a never-ending endeavour’.’
Wikipedia: the Google map in fact shows a border for the island, but the photo of the area in that boundary is left completely black. This is because the ocean image is cut out from the areas identified as land, so that different images are used , as the ocean image is very hard to stitch in, ocean image is less accurate …or… an ‘unidentified’ object has been censored?
Coordinates Sandy Island, also known as Sable Island: (Coordinates: -19.225583, 159.938759 ).
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Well, I understand the ocean is rising rather quickly so I suspect we will loose a lot of small islands as we go along. I sure hope noone is living on them. Which reminds me, how is VENICE doing. Last picture I saw – folks were swimming on the sidewalks…Marina
agree.
although how is the sea floor 1400m deep at that point? sure islands sink, but they dont fall into chasms. Id be more looking at some sort of super ship or some type of moving island etc that may have been there. i dunno haha, not much to go on really.
Luke
just read an article in our local paper about it, apparently its only in maps supplied by the CIA and based on bad intel. It is omitted from the world atlas and a number of reputed world maps, the main connector between all the maps that have it is a CIA map dating back to 2000. The also went into some of the conspiracy theories of it being a large ship or something they didnt want seen on satellite.
Luke
This reminds me of the tv show lost.
AH–MY FRIEND LUKE…thank you for that–you are brillient! By the way, I hear the volcanos are a popping in your area..busy planet…
Nameste’, Marina [11/23/12 - 6:31pm - EST - USA]
What about the same type of openings in the surface that were observed on one or two planets recently? But since it’s on earth where such an opening would be easily noticed by planes, this would open only when needed. It would be a great place to hide UFOs/USOs.
what ever it is , have you ever seen an island shaped like this? made of sand , its shape would have rounded edges with wave erosion. looks like a aircraft carrier to me!
its blacked out roughly, if you look closely you’ll see the sand bars protruding into the water beneath it, it is still odd however that the island is blacked out but apparently doesn’t exist
Luke
Maybe the Ocean’s are rising more than they are telling us ……:(
Very Astute.
And correct thou art.
Hypothetically, imagine a platform or large ship either doing experiments, salvage or drilling for oil or some such. Not as big as the fake island but maybe some effects. So some Over enthusiastic Analyst goes PhotoShop crazy to blank it out and it is called Sandy Island. i remember a time … sometimes this is necessary deal with it.
H.A.A.R.P ships are positioned throughout the worlds oceans. They receive signals via landlocked facilities, e.g., Gakona, Alaska. These received ULF signals to the oceanic platforms/ships are used to modify weather, create disturbances like earthquakes (allegedly) and conduct experimentation for atmospheric research. The tech has been around for quite some time as many countries now employ this to potentially cause harm to other countries or their own people
Hmmmm let’s see:
1. HAARP exists,
2. ULF signals do exist,
3. Oceanographic Vessels do Exist.
Ok how do you jump to a weather weapon? Are you guessing or are you on the RUN.