Pepys Island
As Pepys Iceland one was Phantom Island called, allegedly of about 230 miles north Falkland Islands should be. It was first mentioned in 1684 by Ambrose Cowley , who probably misrepresented the coordinates of one of the Falkland Islands. He named the island after Samuel Pepys , the then secretary of the Admiralty, who is best known today as the diary author of the English restoration era . Other participants in Cowley's voyage, such as William Dampier , did not mention the island. The name was also applied to South Georgia .
In the 18th century, several expeditions tried to locate the island. Some, including John Byron , identified the island with the Falkland Islands, but others, such as Louis Antoine de Bougainville , Lord Anson, and James Cook , continued to search for it until the 1780s, when Cowley's original diary was rediscovered and his error was noticed .