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Ces pays qui n’existaient pas...

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.

#cartographie #cartographie_ancienne #manipulation

Exile In New Caledonia

The untold story of Algerians deported by France to the Pacific island in the 1870s and their descendants today.

Almost 150 years ago, after troops led by Sheikhs Al Mokrani and Al Haddad failed in their year-long resistence to French colonial rule in Algeria, France sent hundreds of Algerians to what was then a penal colony – the island of New Caledonia.

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Pirates, Killer Whales, and Cheap Jewelry : A Life in Science - Issue 101 : In Our Nature
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In 1984 I was on an expedition outside the barrier reef in New Caledonia, an archipelago 750 miles east of Australia. The expedition was formed to study the daily migrations of the nautilus, the longest-lived animal survivor known to science. I was accompanied by, among others, Mike Weekley, a 26-year-old marine biologist, who had worked at the Waikiki Aquarium. Mike was a veteran of nautilus research trips, seemingly fearless, and an expert diver. On our fifth day of research, we saw thieves approaching one of our holding cages, roped to a buoy, where 10 nautiluses were being kept for future experiments. Nearby, tied to the reef edge, a long piece of rope stretched down to a deep cage, where we were performing a crucial experiment: What was the maximum depth at which the nautilus (...)