An atlas of Earth’s mysterious places — megaliths, pyramids, lost and sunken cities — with the evidence shown plainly: what is verified, what is contested, and what is still unknown.

Data CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photos per credit

Explore

Atlas map
All places
Categories
Countries
Contested & pseudo

Community

Theories & discussion
Lists
News & resources
Submit a resource

Mysteria

About the atlas
Data & verification
Licenses & credits
Create an account

Search Mysteria

Search places, or jump to a section

Phantom islands in France (Coral Sea phantom alias) · Mysteria

CategoriesPhantom islands

Phantom islands

Islands charted for centuries, searched for, and never found — cartographers' ghosts.

Places: 12
Countries: 10
World Heritage: 0

Filters

Clear all

Verification

Pick several

Verified0 Widely accepted0 Contested0 Hypothetical9 Unverified0 Pseudoarchaeology3

2 places

🇵🇹Portugal

🇸🇭United Kingdom (Mid-Atlantic phantom)1

🇧🇻Norway (Bouvet phantom)1

🇺🇸United States1

🇨🇱Chile (Pacific phantom)1

🇳🇨 France (Coral Sea phantom alias)

◌Hypothetical

🇳🇨 France (Coral Sea phantom alias) · Phantom island

Sable Island (Coral Sea phantom) – Times Atlas Mislabel of Sandy Island

Phantom cartographic alias (1876 Velocity line → 1999 Times Sable vs 2008 Google Sandy) · French hydrography → English translation → WDBII → Times Atlas

Times Atlas phantom alias revealing database translation duplication – Sandy Island's English ghost twin.

◌Hypothetical

🇳🇨 France (New Caledonia phantom) · Phantom island

Sandy Island (Île de Sable) – Pacific Phantom Island of the Coral Sea

Contested / Phantom cartographic (1876 – 2012 charted) · French whaling / Admiralty hydrography / Digital cartography

Phantom Coral Sea island undiscovered 2012 – 1,400 m water where charts showed land for 136 years.