Talk:Phantom island

message: Some confusion here... there's the 'topic' Phantom Island, and the 'category' Phantom Island, and the latter is a lot smaller! How does one clean this up?
:You have to visit each of the articles and add Category:Phantom islands to its source if it isn't already there. The Phantom islands page will be automatically updated. --Spudtater 17:55, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: BCE is the current terminology used globally to refer to B.C., as the latter term is considered religious in nature, as opposed to the Common Era terminology.Wzrd1 (talk) 02:12, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: What about the "Filippo reef", believed to exist somewhere east from Starbuck, line islands in the Pacific Ocean. Navigators heading from Tahiti to Hawaii  consider wise to take an eastward route to avoid hiting the Filippo, so nobody goes where it is supposed to be and then nobody can verify that it really exists ???
stephane.jourdan@informatique.gov.pf
:Is there are source for this claim? --Gene_poole 23:27, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Navigational charts will show "missing" land, such as land that is submerged by tides, many such areas are mapped by sonar. Others, by historic measurements that are later re-verified. So, it's NOT hard to prove something does not exist in geological terms. ESPECIALLY since anything that goes underwater part of the time would be shallow enough to sink expensive merchant vessels.Wzrd1 (talk) 02:12, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filippo reef 

message: What and where is Caravanserralius Island?  There don't seem to be any Google hits that don't come form this article. It doesn't have an aricle of its own so it's just a name in a list and a dubious one at that. Is it fictional? Flapdragon 12:33, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caravanserralius Island 

message: What about the phantom islands that are said to disappear and reappear? I thought Antilia was one example, but I don't see anything regarding this topic anywhere on Wikipedia... Would be nice to see it mentioned somewhere. 71.217.98.158 05:10, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The ''other'' phantom islands 

message: This calls the Isle of Demons "purely mythical", yet that article seems to be saying that it is what is now called Quirpon Island. I can't tell for sure; it's kind of confusingly written. It seems to suggest that the mythical part refers to the story about it being haunted by demons, etc, but since they give a modern location for it, it doesn't exactly fit in with the definition given by this article, which is islands that were charted but never actually existed. Like I said, I'm not at all sure what "Isle of Demons" is actually saying, but it does say that it's "on Quirpon Island" (how an island can be on an island, I'm not sure), so it can't be 100% mythical..45Colt 07:51, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isle of Demons 

message: The current description reads:
:An island situated in front of Monte Argentario, in the Tyrrhenian Sea between the Isola del Giglio and Giannutri. It was reported for the first time by the cartographer and astronomer Gerardus Mercator in 1589 and subsequently reported in numerous ancient maps by illustrious cartographers until 1720.
So if it 1st appears in a modern map, I'm not sure how it could later appear in "numerous ancient maps". Had it already appeared in ancient maps and geographies, and then been questioned by Mercator? I suspect mistranslation and/or misinterpretation. 108.56.130.251 (talk) 20:07, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you're misreading it. It wasn't "questioned" by Mercator, it was apparently invented by him. "Ancient" isn't a good description of 1589–1720, but otherwise it makes sense. Jason A. Quest (talk) 20:32, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @JasonAQuest Can you find reliable sources as I’ve deleted it. Doug Weller talk 15:10, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: What's wrong with the source cited by the editor who added it? I don't read Italian very well, and it doesn't mention Mercator, but it seems to establish that Zanara is a genuine example.  Jason A. Quest (talk) 16:04, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @JasonAQuest it is  very brief and seems to suggest it’s real. But it is also about a conference. It’s just a newspaper so not a very reliable source for this. I have seen other sources suggesting it’s real also. Doug Weller talk 18:20, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Zanara ancient or modern?