Phantom Island Undiscovered

Today the BBC ran a news article about a Pacific island that was on marine charts, maps and even on google earth, until a group of researchers found it to be non-existent! Either the early Cartographers made a mistake in including “sandy island” in the maps or the island disappeared without a trace sometime in the past. Sandy island is not too small and it would be interesting to see the past satellite imagery from the area to see whether it really existed or not. A very intriguing puzzle to solve! Read the full article from the BBC here.