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2 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇳🇨 France (Coral Sea phantom alias) · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic alias (1876 Velocity line → 1999 Times Sable vs 2008 Google Sandy) · French hydrography → English translation → WDBII → Times Atlas
Times Atlas phantom alias revealing database translation duplication – Sandy Island's English ghost twin.
🇳🇨 France (New Caledonia phantom) · Phantom island
Contested / Phantom cartographic (1876 – 2012 charted) · French whaling / Admiralty hydrography / Digital cartography
Phantom Coral Sea island undiscovered 2012 – 1,400 m water where charts showed land for 136 years.
