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20 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Greek geographic phantom (500 BCE – 300 CE) · Greek geographer / Phoenician trade secrecy
Herodotus ten Tin Islands phantom – Cornish tin coast inflated to archipelago at 50°N 5°W.
🇲🇽 Mexico (Gulf phantom) · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic (1539 charted – 2009 official de-listing) · Spanish cartography / Mexican hydrography / US Navy
Gulf phantom island charted 453 years (1539–2009) whose vanishing cost Mexico's EEZ hydrocarbon claim.
🇸🇭 United Kingdom (Mid-Atlantic phantom) · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic (1670–1816 sightings) · Dutch VOC / British exploring / Admiralty
Mid-Atlantic Ridge phantom island with isthmus charted 139 years – Flinders' 1809 undiscovery.
🇨🇱 Chile (Pacific phantom) · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic (1772–1856) · Spanish Pacific Royal Company / Cook Second Voyage / British sealing
Southeast Pacific royal-chartered phantom archipelago searched by Cook and found to be 4500 m abyssal plain.
🇧🇻 Norway (Bouvet phantom) · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic (1825–1967) · British sealing / Norwegian Bouvet annexation / German Valdivia
Bouvet satellite phantom island undiscovered 1965 – Norris's double sighting of Bouvet in fog.
🇳🇨 France (New Caledonia phantom) · Phantom island
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.
🇫🇰 United Kingdom (Falkland phantom) · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic (1684–1770s) · Buccaneer privateer / British Admiralty / French cartography
North Falkland phantom 'commodious harbour' invented 1684 – magnetic-variation error doubling Falklands.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Submerged site
Portolan chart phantom (1424–1508 CE) · Portuguese–Venetian cartography / Phantom
Azores Satanazes phantom 1424 – Devil archipelago at 33.5°N 29°W, no bank, pure chart error.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Medieval cartographic (1424 Pizzigano – 1492 Columbus) · Pizzigano–Portuguese cartographic
1424 Pizzigano rectangular 'Seven Cities' phantom west of Azores — Columbus' waypoint to Cipangu before Antilia arch.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Submerged site
Portolan phantom (1325–1450) · Catalan–Italian cartography
Southern Brasil rock phantom at 51°N 16°W – second Brasil duplication south of Hy-Brasil, Porcupine plain.
🇨🇱 Chile · Submerged site
Buccaneer phantom (1687–1770) · English buccaneer / French hydrography
Chile Davis phantom 1687 – sandy isle at 27°20′S 105°W, abyssal Nazca plain, precursor to Easter Island.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Submerged site
Portolan phantom (1435–1492) · Genoese–Portuguese cartography
Northern Antillia variant at 38°N 35°W – 150 km rectangular Seven Cities duplicated northward.
🇨🇦 Canada · Submerged site
Pseudo-voyage phantom (1558–1630) · Venetian pseudo-geography / Zeno forgery
Zeno 1558 cannibal giant phantom at 57°N 42°W south of Estotiland – Labrador Sea 3000 m.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Archaeological wonder
Medieval–Modern cartography (1367 Pizzigani – 1906) · Italian Majorcan–Bristol cartographic
Much-copied Atlantic crescent since 1367 — crescent concave east at 46N 20W surviving to Admiralty 1906.
🇫🇰 United Kingdom (Falkland phantom) · Phantom island
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.
🇮🇸 Iceland · Settlement
Renaissance cartography (1558 – 1693 official) · Venetian–Flemish cartographic
Large rectangular phantom south of Iceland on Zeno 1558 map — mapped for a century by Mercator then erased as Faroes misrender.
🇪🇸 Spain · Submerged site
Portolan phantom (1424–1448) · Venetian–Portuguese cartography
Canaries Royllo phantom 1424 – 30 km islet at 29°N 18°W west of Ferro, abyssal.
🇨🇦 Canada · Archaeological wonder
Renaissance (1558 – 1620) · Venetian cartographic
Large hook-shaped Labrador-as-island on Zeno 1558 — large island appearance of Labrador mainland seen offshore.
🇬🇱 Greenland · Archaeological wonder
Renaissance (1569 Mercator – 1660) · Mercator–Ortelius cartographic
Mercator's duplicate southern Greenland tip as separate island Grocland — tip doubled south of real Greenland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Tudor cartographic (1578 – 1865) · Tudor English fishery
1578 herring buss phantom west of Galway — ship-type vs island confusion that put a bank at 52N 35W for 300 years.
