Gallego (Phantom Island)

supposed position of the island of Gallego

The island of Gallego is said to have been discovered in 1695 under 1 ° N and 12 ° west of the Galápagos Islands ; According to Findlay it is below 1 ° 48 'N or 1 ° 08' N; 104 ° W. This is clearly a - albeit considerable - longitudinal displacement of the island of Wenman or Wolf , an isolated Galápagos island below 1 ° 23 'N; 91 ° 49 'W.

The island of Gallego can still be found on globes from the 1950s.

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↑ Krusenstern, Adam Johann von: Contributions to the hydrography of the greater oceans as explanations of a chart of the entire world according to Mercator's projection; Leipzig: Kummer, 1819, p. 220 ( digitized version )
^ Findlay, Alexander George: A directory for the navigation of the North Pacific Ocean; London: Laurie, 1886 (3rd ed.), P. 925, note +
↑ z. B. on: Columbus terrestrial globe, edited by Richard Neuse; Berlin & Stuttgart: Columbus-Verl. Paul Oestergaard, [approx. 1953] (scale: 1: 38,000,000)

[1] Krusenstern, Adam Johann von: Contributions to the hydrography of the greater oceans as explanations of a chart of the entire world according to Mercator's projection; Leipzig: Kummer, 1819, p. 220 ( digitized version )

[2] Findlay, Alexander George: A directory for the navigation of the North Pacific Ocean; London: Laurie, 1886 (3rd ed.), P. 925, note +

[3] z. B. on: Columbus terrestrial globe, edited by Richard Neuse; Berlin & Stuttgart: Columbus-Verl. Paul Oestergaard, [approx. 1953] (scale: 1: 38,000,000)

Gallego (Phantom Island)

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