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Islands, seas and countries on the map that don’t exist | Warwick Daily News
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NON-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases.
And phantom islands that never really existed are still being presented as “real” in the 21st century.
As recently as 2012, the so-called Sandy Island between Australia and New Caledonia was established as non-existent.
Australia and North America were once supposed to have vast inland seas that were drawn on maps.