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3 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.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Submerged site
Portolan chart phantom (1424–1508 CE) · Portuguese–Venetian cartography / Phantom
Azores Satanazes phantom 1424 – Devil archipelago at 33.5°N 29°W, no bank, pure chart error.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Archaeological wonder
Medieval–Modern cartography (1367 Pizzigani – 1906) · Italian Majorcan–Bristol cartographic
Much-copied Atlantic crescent since 1367 — crescent concave east at 46N 20W surviving to Admiralty 1906.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Phantom island
1424 Pizzigano – 1580 removal, but name lives · Portuguese–Genovese cartography + Visigoth legend
1424 Pizzigano rectangle at 35N 28W — seven bishop cities phantom that gave Antilles its name.
