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phantom2 argentina1 aurora islands1 cowley1 falklands1 keppel1 magnetic variation1

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🇫🇰 United Kingdom (Falkland phantom)

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🇫🇰 United Kingdom (Falkland phantom) · Phantom island

Pepys Island (Pepys's Island) – Phantom Falkland north of Keppel

Phantom cartographic (1684–1770s) · Buccaneer privateer / British Admiralty / French cartography

North Falkland phantom 'commodious harbour' invented 1684 – magnetic-variation error doubling Falklands.

◌Hypothetical

🇫🇰 United Kingdom (Falkland phantom) · Phantom island

Aurora Islands (Islas Aurora) – Phantom Falkland Shag Rocks of the South Atlantic

Phantom cartographic (1762–1856) · Spanish Antarctic / British sealing / Argentine hydrography

South Atlantic phantom archipelago of four islands charted 94 years before refuted – chronometer-error Shag Rocks.