The strange story of Sandy Island, the remote Pacific outcrop that never existed
The strange story of Sandy Island, the remote Pacific outcrop that never existed There is – in a very real sense of the familiar phrase – nothing to see here Sandy Island on a 1908 map The RV Southern Surveyor was sailing through the sunlight of a warm summer day when Dr Maria Seton noticed that something was wrong. November 22 2012 should have been an ordinary date in the diary for this doughty Australian research vessel, as it studied the lay-out of the seabed in the Coral Sea, some 900 miles east of mainland Queensland. But after a few minutes of confusion, the geologist on its deck ...
Source: telegraph.co.uk