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发帖数: 17544 | 1 My newly-claimed territory (Sandy Island) gong forever, damn!!!
Sandy Island Doesn't Exist: Google Maps Showed Isle In South Pacific
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/24/sandy-island-doesnt-ex
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/24/sandy-island-doesnt-ex
A sizable, uninhabited island shown in the South Pacific on Google Maps and
other charts does not exist, according to Australian scientists.
Scientists noticed an isle called Sandy Island by Google and Sable Island by
others, but it didn't appear on the navigational map aboard their ship, CNN
reported. So they decided to steer towards it.
Even though it occupied about 60 square miles on maps, the team from the
University of Sydney found only the deep blue of the Coral Sea when they
arrived at the coordinates of the phantom island this month.
Sandy Island was supposed to be halfway between Australia and New Caledonia.
The ship's captain approached it nervously, worrying that they'd run
aground, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
"It's on Google Earth and other maps so we went to check and there was no
island. We're really puzzled. It's quite bizarre," said lead researcher
Maria Seton, a geologist. "How did it find its way onto the maps? We just
don't know, but we plan to follow up and find out."
Using Google's satellite view of the fictitious flyspeck, Sandy Island shows
up as a dark mass. As of Saturday morning, it was still visible on Google
Maps.
"The world is a constantly changing place, and keeping on top of these
changes is a never-ending endeavor," said Nabil Naghdy, a Google Maps
project manager.
The researchers said they don't know how the island first showed up on maps,
but the Sydney Morning Herald found references to it going back to at least
2000.
The academics were studying plate tectonics, the Guardian reported.
If it actually existed, Sandy Island would fall in French territorial waters
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