Crespo (Phantom Island)
| Crespo | ||
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 32 ° 47 ' N , 169 ° 40' E | |
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The island of Crespo was founded on October 15, 1801 by Francisco Sanchez Crespo, first mate of the Manila galleon El Rey Cárlos , on the crossing from the Philippines to Acapulco at latitude 32 ° 46 'north and longitude 45 ° 55' east depending on the embocadero of San Bernardino or 176 ° 27 'east longitude of Cadiz sighted. Crespo suspected that it was the island of Rica de Plata, marked half a degree north and 6 degrees west on the maps of the galleon route . This also non-existent island was only erased from the British Admiralty's Pacific map in 1875.
The length determination at this time was accurate to 2-3 °. Since the sighting of the supposed island took place after the sun set and from a distance of 8 to 10 leguas , i.e. 44.5 to almost 56 km, it is assumed that this sight was not real, but was most likely simulated by cloud formations. The term "high" island, which appears in more recent literature, is not proven in older reports such as Espinosas.
Crespo is taken up in the novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne , when the author lets his captain Nemo of the Nautilus go hunting in her submarine “forests”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Espinosa y Tello, José: Memorias sobre las observaciones astronómicas, hechas por los navegantes españoles en distintos lugares del globo . tape 2 , no. 3 . Madrid 1809, p. 10, 11 .
- ^ Stommel, Henry M .: Lost islands . The story of islands that have vanished from nautical charts. 2nd Edition. Vancouver 1984, ISBN 0-7748-0210-3 , pp. 105 (English).
- ↑ Chassigneux, Edmond: Rica de Oro et Rica de Plata . In: T'oung pao ou Archives concernant l'histoire, les langues, la géographie, l'ethnographie et les arts de l'Asie Orientale . tape 2 , no. 30 . Leide 1933, p. 37-84, 57 (French).
- ^ Stommel, Henry M .: Lost islands . The story of islands that have vanished from nautical charts. 2nd Edition. Vancouver 1984, ISBN 0-7748-0210-3 , pp. 73 (English).
- ^ Sharp, Andrew: The discovery of the Pacific Islands . Oxford 1960, p. 89 (English).
- ^ Stommel, Henry M .: Lost islands . The story of islands that have vanished from nautical charts. 2nd Edition. Vancouver 1984, ISBN 0-7748-0210-3 , pp. 4 (English).
- ↑ Verne, Jules: 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas . 3. Edition. Book guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Vienna & Zurich 1977, XV-XVII, p. 140-164 .
- ↑ Internet edition 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Accessed February 10, 2011 (English, other languages also available).
Remarks
- ↑ 169 ° 40 'east longitude of Greenwich , according to Burney is the Embocadero de San Bernardino at 123 ° 45' east Greenwich longitude. in: Burney, James: To the year 1764 . In: A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean . tape 5 . London 1817, p. 159 (English, under notes).
- ↑ 170 ° 09 'E longitude of Greenwich
- ↑ for the length information see geographical length # history
- ↑ 32 ° 46 'north latitude, 176 ° 27' east longitude of Cádiz (170 ° 09 'E Greenwich)
- ↑ 1 Spanish Legua maritima = 5565.33 m in: Klimpert, Richard: Lexicon of coins, dimensions, weights, counting types and time sizes of all countries on earth . 2nd Edition. Berlin 1896, p. 199 .