Comments on: Pacific island does not exist

By: jhertzli

jhertzli — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 04:55:00 +0000

THEY are trying to hide something … like the presence of seven stranded castaways…

By: imag

imag — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:39:00 +0000

Itsumishi – not only that, but they both have surrounding sea level data that shows a rise in sea level at that point. It seems odd that all that data was fabricated in two different maps with two different data sets.

By: Itsumishi

Itsumishi — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:37:00 +0000

Strange that both Google and Yahoo have obviously used different images for their maps, yet both have the ‘island’ blacked out. I really want to know what exactly is going on here.

By: Antoine

Antoine — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:25:00 +0000

No wonder… New Caledonia is a part of France. For now at least!

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:01:00 +0000

BB needs an LOL button.

By: Adrian Beauchamp

Adrian Beauchamp — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:05:00 +0000

Before I was nostalgic, now I’m scared… this is all starting to come together like the loose threads of IP adresses in the browser cache of our collective memory…

By: Luther Blissett

Luther Blissett — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:12:00 +0000

Try MapMaker next time (if available in your country, that is).

Took them a couple of hours (!WTF!?) to fix a misnomer of an island in the Indian Ocean for me. Which was also misnomed in several language versions of Wikipedia because of the interwebz recursion department of recursion.
Wonder how long it will take to correct all the wiki pages…

By: chris coreline

chris coreline — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:09:00 +0000

you are the best internet.

By: chris coreline

chris coreline — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:09:00 +0000

Yeah!, Thanks Obama D:

By: Luther Blissett

Luther Blissett — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:05:00 +0000

Nofare, If the price of Nickel is going to rise again like in 2007, you’ll be on MANY maps.

Just out of curiosity, do you have “domestic” mail service to France? One of the puzzling realizations of my early teens was when I grasped that France and Portugal really still had colonies. And that you could just travel there without any paperwork. (Except for the costs!) New Caledonia is on my list of “must see” places on this planet.

By: capl

capl — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:31:00 +0000

I’m surprised no one has brought up the theory that one of the scientists (Dr. Steven Micklethwaite) has, that the original source of their charts was a CIA map. Link with audio interview… http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/where-did-it-go-scientists-undiscover-pacific-island-20121122-29ro4.html

By: e

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:26:00 +0000

I’ll just leave this here – http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8144

By: DJ Byzantine

DJ Byzantine — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:03:00 +0000

Has anyone thought about the fact that there might have been an underground nuclear test there by the French???

By: Orion Starfire

Orion Starfire — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 05:23:00 +0000

So that’s what the island from Lost is called. Probably teleported away.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 02:16:00 +0000

I wrote to Google last year because on the topo view in Google Maps they had mislabeled a small river and a number of streams in my old stomping grounds. They applied the same label to several of them. i got an acknowledgment email a couple months later.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 02:08:00 +0000

So you’re saying it’s a watermark?

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 02:07:00 +0000

You mean like “Canada?”

By: invictus

invictus — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 02:03:00 +0000

YA R’LYEH

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:22:00 +0000

Which is one reason why Australia was checking on it

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:20:00 +0000

Uh, Google != Yahoo. Bumblebeee… Didn’t say map-making companies, he said Google

By: David

David — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:44:00 +0000

When Merlin awakes from the Crystal Cave located there, the mists will disappear, the land will take corporeal form, and we’ll all know it to be the Isle of Avalon.

By: Anon_Mahna

Anon_Mahna — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:38:00 +0000

..it smelled of rotten fish and had a strange obelisk…….

By: kenmce

kenmce — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:29:00 +0000

It’s just his pied-à-terre on Earth. Apparently the fishing is quite good out that way.

By: Lobster

Lobster — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:25:00 +0000

O R’LYEH?

By: Jake Rennie

Jake Rennie — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:53:00 +0000

Yeah, I hate it when the polar ice melts to the point of sinking an island under 4620 feet of water. You’d think that with the ocean rising that high, you’d see the effects on other landmasses, but apparently not. That’s probably something for Al Gore to investigate in An Inconvenient Truth 2: Electric Boogaloo.

By: BillStewart2012

BillStewart2012 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:52:00 +0000

It’s where Brigadoon goes when it’s not in Scotland.

By: bo1n6bo1n6

bo1n6bo1n6 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:41:00 +0000

It’s a trap!

By: AlexG55

AlexG55 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:02:00 +0000

There are subtler ways to introduce deliberate errors to nautical charts that (unlike fake islands) won’t affect navigation.

By: AlexG55

AlexG55 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:00:00 +0000

One article about it said that nautical chart producers usually don’t insert fake features, as they want their charts to be considered trustworthy and also tend to be government monopolies.

Also, there are more subtle ways to do it that are less likely to endanger navigation, like introducing deliberate errors in the final digits of extremely deep (>1000m) soundings.

By: Philboyd Studge

Philboyd Studge — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:37:00 +0000

It may be Brigadoon – I’m sure it will turn up in a bit.