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The supposedly sizeable strip of land, named Sandy Island on Google maps, was positioned midway between Australia and French-governed New Caledonia.
But when scientists from the University of Sydney went to the area, they found only the blue ocean of the Coral Sea.
The phantom island has featured in publications for at least a decade.
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Guess the gw melted the icebergs and covered it with miles of melted bergs? It was there, but we need to stop gw?
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letget on November 22, 2012 at 6:53 PM
Atlantis = Sandy Island = *poof*
tommy71 on November 22, 2012 at 6:57 PM
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vcferlita on November 22, 2012 at 6:59 PM
It used to be there until Obama taxed it onto oblivion.
Qzsusy on November 22, 2012 at 7:08 PM
I think they will find it laying face down on the bottom of the ocean.
pedestrian on November 22, 2012 at 7:09 PM
hurricane sandy hands the election to a marxist and an island named sandy turns up missing.
somwhere a devil got its horns.
renalin on November 22, 2012 at 7:09 PM
The truth is out there (*cue the music*).
tommy71 on November 22, 2012 at 7:15 PM
Exactly what I was thinking. They must have moved the island.
El_Terrible on November 22, 2012 at 7:20 PM
Ok, Bloefeld, what have you done with it?
OldEnglish on November 22, 2012 at 7:20 PM
It was discovered by Lemuel Gulliver in 1701, I believe.
radjah shelduck on November 22, 2012 at 7:25 PM
Maybe they put a military base on it and it tipped over.
Mark1971 on November 22, 2012 at 7:27 PM
Too many people and it tipped over.
davidk on November 22, 2012 at 7:27 PM
Beat me. And yours was better.
davidk on November 22, 2012 at 7:29 PM
Oh, there you go, blaming the little people again!
Sizist!
OldEnglish on November 22, 2012 at 7:29 PM
Is that guy still in Congress?
Mark1971 on November 22, 2012 at 7:29 PM
Sadly. And being honored: http://hankjohnson.house.gov/
davidk on November 22, 2012 at 7:37 PM
it was just the giant turtle…
nathor on November 22, 2012 at 7:41 PM
Johnson is sponsoring a bill: H. R. 528
[Report No. 112–23]
To require the submission of a report to the Congress on parasitic disease
among poor Americans.
This will require the formation of a group to compile the information which means more federal money given to a company which donated money to him.
davidk on November 22, 2012 at 7:44 PM
I told you so – Al Gore
maynila on November 22, 2012 at 7:48 PM
They propably still want to collect property taxes.
Dollayo on November 22, 2012 at 7:50 PM
Watch for it…
Another victim of Sea level rise. There was a undiscovered population of people there that never saw anther human for hundreds if not thousands of years and now thanks to evil CO2, they and all there history and culture are washed from the earth forever. Once under water the ocean acidification thanks to CO2 again dissolved the island, the volcano, rock or coral reef, down to be the same level as the surrounding ocean floor.
tjexcite on November 22, 2012 at 7:50 PM
Very likely it was a pumice raft that some sailors discovered and marked on the map but disappeared shortly after they left.
Like this one recently:
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/giant-pumice-island-floats-in-the-pacific.htm
crosspatch on November 22, 2012 at 7:53 PM
Home!
cthulhu on November 22, 2012 at 8:34 PM
I used to date a girl named Sandy Issland. I think she’s married with kids somewhere in NJ now- nowhere near Australia…
affenhauer on November 22, 2012 at 8:50 PM
Hmmmm!
davidk on November 22, 2012 at 9:03 PM
Somewhere, some cartographer is quietly hoping that it will never come back to him that he made the error that was continued by many,
Logus on November 22, 2012 at 9:43 PM