🇨🇦 Canada · Archaeological wonder
Estotiland – Corte-Real Phantom Labrador of Zeno
Renaissance (1558 – 1620) · Venetian cartographic
Large hook-shaped Labrador-as-island on Zeno 1558 — large island appearance of Labrador mainland seen offshore.
🇬🇱 Greenland · Archaeological wonder
Grocland – Southern Phantom Greenland on Mercator
Renaissance (1569 Mercator – 1660) · Mercator–Ortelius cartographic
Mercator's duplicate southern Greenland tip as separate island Grocland — tip doubled south of real Greenland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Buss Island – Phantom Faroes Bank off Greenland
Tudor cartographic (1578 – 1865) · Tudor English fishery
1578 herring buss phantom west of Galway — ship-type vs island confusion that put a bank at 52N 35W for 300 years.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Hanging Gardens of Babylon (claimed sites)
Neo-Babylonian claimed 600 BCE; Assyrian alternative 700 BCE · Babylonian or Assyrian (Neo-Assyrian Sennacherib)
Unlocated wonder: Nebuchadnezzar's terraces vs Dalley's Nineveh screw garden.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Avalon – Isle of Apples and Glastonbury Tor Legendary Island
Literary 12th c. (Geoffrey) – 15th c. Malory · Cornish-Welsh Celtic / Anglo-Norman
Geoffrey of Monmouth 1136 Otherworld isle where Excalibur forged, Arthur taken after Camlann to be healed by Morgan le F...
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Quivira – Coronado's Plains City of Gold (Gran Quivira)
Contact myth 1540–1605 · Wichita / Spanish Entrada
Northernmost of Coronado's Seven Cities expedition – Turk told Coronado of Quivira rich in gold east beyond Pueblo; Coro...
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
La Canela – Cinnamon Country of the Amazon (Gonzalo Pizarro)
Claimed 1539 forest resource not city · Spanish resource / Omagua
Gonzalo Pizarro 1539 cinnamon forest east of Andes — sparse not city, triggers Amazon descent
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Atlantis Tartessos Shelf – Huelva Shelf Tartessic Atlantis
Claimed Tartessic Bronze 1000 BCE (rectangle sand ridge Holocene) · Tartessic / Spectral artefact
Huelva shelf Tartessos variant of Doñana rectangle — Hinojos cores show sand ridge not city
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Paititi – Inca Lost City of Pantiacolla (Paititi)
Inca Late Horizon to Colonial legend (1532–1600s) · Inca / Spanish colonial
Inca refuge city east of Andes — Spanish 1600s to modern satellite hunt found no grid
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Omagua – El Dorado Jungle Kingdom on Upper Amazon
Contact Amazon 1542–1639 · Omagua (Tupian) / Spanish
Orellana 1542 densely settled Omagua longhouse chiefdom misread as gold kingdom
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Atlantis Cádiz–Gadir – Spartel / Doñana Gadir Atlantis Variant
Claimed 9600 BCE (Gadir Phoenician 1104 BCE) · Phoenician / Plato
Cádiz Erytheia Phoenician 1104 BCE island claimed Atlantis — no 9600 BCE plain