@pioneercynthia1
Naturally, Gilligan's Island still remains an uncharted mystery.
@JETWTF
Cartographers intentionaly put fake stuff on their maps to catch copies.
@jros4057
There's also the case of trap islands where a small fake island was put into maps to catch plagiarism. If your fake island showed up in someone else's map they're selling then there's a good chance they copied your map.
@saydvoncripps
And on those maps had areas clearly marked "here be dragons" yet you go there and there's not a bloody dragon in sight.
@MrTexasDan
... and Richard Head is added to my list of the most unfortunate names.
@amaccama3267
Erosion is definitely a factor. In Victoria Australia, there is a well-known tourist attraction called the 12 Apostles. Slowly but surely, they are disappearing to erosion.
@adamhill3423
We’re now informed about ghost islands, but what about ghost Simons? We’ve got recordings of multiple Simons but can’t find more than the one mythical Simon
@yellowjackboots2624
Best Simon Whistler impersonator yet.
@stancil83
The islands that were once alive enough to die and become ghosts are scarily scarce. Hmmm, scarcity seems to be a ghostly characteristic.
@OpenWorldAddict0
I believe that with our current level of technology, being able to map the sea floor, we should be able to tell whether or not there was any island there in the first place, despite it being 'under the surface of the sea'.
@JKlein713
When we moved to Indiana in the late 70s there was an island in the Ohio River, just down river from the mouth of Big Bone Creek in Kentucky. It wasn't a sand bar, it had trees and other vegetation and with its sandy beaches, it was popular with boaters. Then, one year, after a flood receded, the island was gone. There were a few trees sticking up out of the water, but the land was gone. The Army Corp of Engineers marked the area with bouys, by the early 90s, there was nothing left and they removed the bouys.
@shyguysamurai
Good sir, I am American and I will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico. The insanity of a petulant leader be damned.
@thekito4623
youtube really needs to add a "no background music" feature so i can keep listening to my own music while watching this
@shinkicker404
I thought a lot of these islands and other details were deliberately faked to make it easy for cartographers to see who’s just copying their stuff.
@Map-Myths
Cool stories and explainers, and so many more phantoms to be found on historic maps.
@kuragaraus
thank you for another awesome video
@nicklager1666
The whole concept of islands and mirages that just appear out of nowhere interest me. I remember listening to my grandpa about his ventures at sea. It was usually calm seas when it happened but of nowhere he could see the reflections of factories that just appeared out of nowhere. Im not sure how much truth i found in the stories but when im out at sea and the weather is right i would just like to experience something like that for myself.
@jonathanl1276
New Zealand is an example of islands that continue to disappear off maps, sometimes even reappearing in a different location depending on which map you look at! 😄 According to its Māori name, Aotearoa, it is the land of the long white cloud. And maybe that long white cloud occasionally descends and shrouds the country from both view and maps. Maybe the land of Middle Earth only appears to those who believe in the words of J. R. R. Tolkien.
@Jameywells777
One of these Islands Doug McClure is running from a Dinosaur.
@paigeharrison3909