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In late 2012, a research ship sailed to an island printed on its maps and on Google Earth. The sea there was more than 1,300 metres deep. For centuries, maps have carried islands that were never there. Here is how they got on, and why they were so hard to remove. 0:00 An island on every map 1:20 Why maps lie 3:22 Hy-Brasil: the island that wouldn't leave 4:17 Frisland: the island that fooled Mercator 5:20 Crocker Land: mountains made of air 7:07 Bermeja: the island worth an oil field 8:22 How Sandy Island got into the computer 9:46 How much of the sea is still unmapped SOURCES Seton, Williams, Zahirovic & Micklethwaite (2013), "Obituary: Sandy Island (1876–2012)", Eos 94(15), doi:10.1002/2013EO150001. Sandy Island, New Caledonia — Wikipedia (Velocity 1876 report, SHOM removal 1974, Australian removal 1985, pumice drift study). NBC News / LiveScience (2012), "Real fantasy island" — World Vector Shoreline database, Admiralty chart 1908, Micklethwaite quote. Mail & Guardian / AFP (2012-11-30), "Mysterious phantom island disappears without a trace" — depth ≥1,300 m, voyage. NPR / KUNC (2013-03-15), "Pacific island bigger than Manhattan vanishes" — 2000 radio-operator report. Library of Congress, Worlds Revealed blog (2020), "Hy-Brasil: the supernatural island"; Leventhal Map & Education Center, Hy-Brasil exhibition (Dulcert 1325, Catalan Atlas 1375, Bianco 1436, Admiralty charts by 1873). Frisland — Wikipedia; Library of Congress blog (2019), "The mysterious island"; Geographicus, "The most successful 16th-century geographic fraud" (Zeno 1558, Mercator 1569, Ortelius 1570, Buache). Crocker Land / Crocker Land Expedition — Wikipedia; Mental Floss, "The legendary Arctic island that didn't exist"; Bowdoin College (2016). Bermeja — Wikipedia; Uno TV (Mexico), "Isla Bermeja" (Navy survey 1997, UNAM/Justo Sierra 2009, ~22.6 billion barrels estimate cited by a Chamber of Deputies study). Exclusive economic zone — Wikipedia (UNCLOS 1982, 200 nautical miles). Pepys Island; Aurora Islands; Phantom island — Wikipedia. Longitude Act 1714 — Wikipedia; Royal Museums Greenwich, "Longitude found: John Harrison". International Hydrographic Organization / Seabed 2030 (April 2026): 28.7% of the seafloor mapped to modern standards. Coastlines: Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain) via world-atlas (ISC). Music: our own AI-generated beds (Lyria). Sound effects: CC0. Images (Wikimedia Commons, public domain): "Map by Nicolo Zeno 1558" (1793 reproduction); "Robert Peary self-portrait, 1909" (Robert Peary); "Pumice raft" near Tonga, 2006 (Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory). Maps, diagrams and the stickman host are our own hand-coded animation; maps and ships are illustrative, not to survey scale. Painted backgrounds are AI-generated (Gemini) in the channel's storybook style. AI-assisted narration (synthetic voice). Strange Almanac — anomalies, mysteries, and the edges of human understanding. New video every week. #Maps #History #Mystery #Explained #Science #Education ▶ Watch next: https://youtu.be/sF5nyccG200 ▶ Next: https://youtu.be/RvAIa4CN4z4

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