Faerabakur

Faerabakur is a sandbank off the east coast of Iceland , about 14 kilometers in an east-southeast direction from the Kambanes peninsula . It is usually 6.30 meters below the surface of the water, at high seas it can be recognized by the waves breaking on it. With Grillir and Alftindsbodi there are two submarine reefs in the immediate vicinity.

Faerabakur as well as the island of Hvalbakur to the south are considered candidates for a sighting by the Dutch navigator and cartographer Joris Carolus in 1617, which he called Opdams Island. Since the latitude he specified with 66 ° N runs about one and a quarter latitude north and there is no land there, it found its way into contemporary maps as a phantom island , now under the name Enchuysen , for a period of almost a century and a half .

Individual evidence

1. ^ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency : Sailing Directions (Enroute), Greenland and Iceland. Twelfth edition, 2014, Springfield, Virginia, p. 181. Digital copy, PDF, 6.4MB, accessed on September 20, 2015 (English)
2. ^ Halldór Hermannsson: Jón Guðmundsson and his Natural History of Iceland. Islandica, published by Cornell University , Ithaca, Vol.XV (1924), p. 33. Digitized at Google Books USA, directly to the side ; currently only accessible via proxy. (English)

Coordinates: 64 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 32 ′ 0 ″  W.