Emerald (Phantom Island)
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| Waters | South pacific | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 0 ′ S , 162 ° 0 ′ E | |
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The Emerald Island is a phantom island that should be located south of Macquarie Island between Australia and Antarctica . In December 1821 she was said to have been sighted from the ship Emerald . Allegedly it was a small, but very high or mountainous island between 57 ° or 57 ° 30 'south latitude and 162 ° east longitude. In fact, it never existed.
Route of the SY Nimrod in search of the Phantom Islands in the South Pacific (1909)
The island appeared in 1987 in a calendar with atlas published by American Express . The plain at the bottom of the ocean at the assumed location of the island was called the Emerald Basin.
Emerald I. still appears in the world atlas of the USSR from 1967.
Individual evidence
- Chief Administration of Geodesy and Cartography under the Council of Ministers of the USSR: The World Atlas, Second Edition, Moscow 1967, p. 249 (Antarctic) ( online )