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3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇪🇸 Spain · Phantom island
Voyage c.530 (hagiography 8th c.); mapped 9th c.–1850 · Irish monastic immram + medieval mappa mundi
Brendan's 6th c. currach Promised Land at 28N 23W – Severin 1976 proved voyage feasible but not island.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Phantom island
Medieval to early modern cartography (1325 – 1873 charted; legend 7th c. Irish immram) · Irish immram myth / Iberian cartography
Circular 51°N 17°W phantom west of Galway on maps 1325–1873 – seven-year appearing immortal isle.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Phantom island
1424 Pizzigano – 1580 removal, but name lives · Portuguese–Genovese cartography + Visigoth legend
1424 Pizzigano rectangle at 35N 28W — seven bishop cities phantom that gave Antilles its name.
