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🇲🇽 Mexico (Gulf phantom) · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic (1539 charted – 2009 official de-listing) · Spanish cartography / Mexican hydrography / US Navy
Gulf phantom island charted 453 years (1539–2009) whose vanishing cost Mexico's EEZ hydrocarbon claim.
🇸🇭 United Kingdom (Mid-Atlantic phantom) · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic (1670–1816 sightings) · Dutch VOC / British exploring / Admiralty
Mid-Atlantic Ridge phantom island with isthmus charted 139 years – Flinders' 1809 undiscovery.
🇨🇱 Chile (Pacific phantom) · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic (1772–1856) · Spanish Pacific Royal Company / Cook Second Voyage / British sealing
Southeast Pacific royal-chartered phantom archipelago searched by Cook and found to be 4500 m abyssal plain.
🇧🇻 Norway (Bouvet phantom) · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic (1825–1967) · British sealing / Norwegian Bouvet annexation / German Valdivia
Bouvet satellite phantom island undiscovered 1965 – Norris's double sighting of Bouvet in fog.
🇳🇨 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.
🇫🇰 United Kingdom (Falkland phantom) · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic (1684–1770s) · Buccaneer privateer / British Admiralty / French cartography
North Falkland phantom 'commodious harbour' invented 1684 – magnetic-variation error doubling Falklands.
🇫🇰 United Kingdom (Falkland phantom) · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic (1762–1856) · Spanish Antarctic / British sealing / Argentine hydrography
South Atlantic phantom archipelago of four islands charted 94 years before refuted – chronometer-error Shag Rocks.
