It’s well known that cartographers would add a small island or river that doesn’t really exist as sort of a “signature” or “fingerprint” that it’s their work to keep other less reputable cartographers from just reprinting it as their own work. That’s most likely what happened here. The fake island got printed onto newer maps by companies that didn’t do their homework and caused a massive headache between two countries.
Dude you just got a new sub, literally just started this vid and for the amount of subs you have you’re vids a very well made, you deserve way more subs
Some very small cracks in your usually flawless grammar reveals you're probably not a native English speaker? I'm just guessing so excuse me if I'm wrong and honestly your English is better than many native speakers I know so, I'm not really sure. But that's off topic. I should be talking about the video. Very interesting. I've never heard about this. My first instinct was that, yeah, sometimes islands disappear. They form in the sea. They can unform. But that doesn't account for all the data. It's much more likely that some map maker from the days when maps were still pretty bad got confused.
Hey Paul! Haha, good observation - you are right, I am not a native English speaker, although I've been living in an English-speaking environment for years now. As other native speakers would probably agree, you have days when your language level just suddenly drops, and now, reviewing the video, I notice all the little errors! As for the video, there are actually more islands like this, check out the story of island Sandy in Australia. I reckon that there are still other islands that exist on maps but not in reality, and we just don't know it yet.
@@DisInfluence No kidding. Yeah there must be. If there's one there must be others. Of course living near the coast, it makes me wonder what exactly constitutes an island. Some islands are so small they don't have names and would only appear on the most detailed local maps. I suppose we're talking islands that are of a size large enough to regularly appear on most sea charts?
I love these mysteries that are just simple mistakes that are never properly investigated for a long time
It’s well known that cartographers would add a small island or river that doesn’t really exist as sort of a “signature” or “fingerprint” that it’s their work to keep other less reputable cartographers from just reprinting it as their own work. That’s most likely what happened here. The fake island got printed onto newer maps by companies that didn’t do their homework and caused a massive headache between two countries.
Dude you just got a new sub, literally just started this vid and for the amount of subs you have you’re vids a very well made, you deserve way more subs
Haha, thanks, we are slowly getting there! Feel free to share the channel though :)
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Wow this is such an interesting topic!
This must be the island from Lost that keeps changing its location
More like a paper town or in this case, a paper island. They were used to catch copyright fraud (like Agloe, NY).
wtf looked at the calendar on my phone and it’s september fifth
yes good I like the video
Some very small cracks in your usually flawless grammar reveals you're probably not a native English speaker? I'm just guessing so excuse me if I'm wrong and honestly your English is better than many native speakers I know so, I'm not really sure.
But that's off topic. I should be talking about the video. Very interesting. I've never heard about this. My first instinct was that, yeah, sometimes islands disappear. They form in the sea. They can unform. But that doesn't account for all the data. It's much more likely that some map maker from the days when maps were still pretty bad got confused.
Hey Paul! Haha, good observation - you are right, I am not a native English speaker, although I've been living in an English-speaking environment for years now. As other native speakers would probably agree, you have days when your language level just suddenly drops, and now, reviewing the video, I notice all the little errors!
As for the video, there are actually more islands like this, check out the story of island Sandy in Australia. I reckon that there are still other islands that exist on maps but not in reality, and we just don't know it yet.
@@DisInfluence No kidding. Yeah there must be. If there's one there must be others. Of course living near the coast, it makes me wonder what exactly constitutes an island. Some islands are so small they don't have names and would only appear on the most detailed local maps. I suppose we're talking islands that are of a size large enough to regularly appear on most sea charts?
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