Isla Grande (South Atlantic)
Isla Grande was sighted in the South Atlantic in 1675 by Anthony de la Roché , the discoverer of South Georgia . It is described as "a very large and beautiful island with a good port on the east coast". Its latitude is given as 45 ° S, a length determination is missing. Drinking water, wood and fish were found there, and they were spent six days without seeing a single human being.
After more than a hundred years of fruitless search, however, Isla Grande was erased from the maps around 1820, and today it is assumed that de la Roché either considered part of the South American east coast (north of the Golfo de San Jorge ) to be an island, so it is far imagined more easterly than it actually was or - less likely - called today's Gough Island (it is below 40 ° 20 's. Br.).
literature
- Francisco de Seixas y Lovera: Descripción geographica y derrotero de la región Austral Magallanica ; Madrid: Antonio de Zafra, 1690, [fol.] 30
- Rupert Thomas Gould: Oddities - a book of unexplained facts . London 1928, pp. 198-203