In 2012 a crew of scientists on a ship discovered a rather large error in maps - an entire island marked on maps that did not exist

Did you know that  in 2012 a crew of scientists on a ship discovered a rather large error in maps – an entire island marked on maps that did not exist.

 

The island, named Sandy Island on Google Earth, also exists on marine charts and world maps and allegedly sits between Australia and New Caledonia in the south Pacific.

The island that isn’t … how it is highlighted on a map

But when the voyage’s chief scientist, Maria Seton, and her crew sailed past where the island should be, they found nothing but blue ocean.

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“We became suspicious when the navigation charts used by the ship showed a depth of 1400 metres in an area where our scientific maps and Google Earth showed the existence of a large island,” Dr Maria Seton, a geologist from the University of Sydney, said.

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In 2012 a crew of scientists on a ship discovered a rather large error in maps - an entire island marked on maps that did not exist