Saxemberg Island
Saxemberg was a phantom island believed to have existed in the South Atlantic. It appeared intermittently on charts between the 17th and the 19th centuries. Saxemberg was reportedly discovered by Dutch seafarer John Lindestz Lindeman in 1670. Lindeman reported the island's coordinates as . Lindeman made a sketch which depicted the island as being low lying, but with a somewhat pointed mountain in the middle. Other sketches, of unidentified authorship, presented a more detailed view of Saxemberg. Major General Alexander Beatson, a resident of St. Helena, reported that he had drawings of the island depicting different forms of  plant life. Another resident of St Helena, James Wathen, wrote a book where he surmised that Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, Gough, and Saxemberg constituted an island chain extending in length and in breadth. Despite Lindeman's original report, many sailors were apparently unable to locate the island at the coordinates provided by the Dutchman. There appears to have been some skepticism about the existence of Saxemberg, and the island was not always depicted on charts. The next reported sighting of Saxemberg was made in 1804, when Captain Galloway of the American ship "Fanny" reported seeing the island and keeping it  in view for four hours. Galloway observed that the island did indeed have a peak in the middle, as reported by Lindeman. In 1816, Captain Head of the "True Briton" found the island and kept it in view for six hours. His account corroborated Galloway's. The British explorer Matthew Flinders, known for his explorations of Australia, attempted to find Saxemberg during his cruise on the ship "Investigator", in September 1801. Flinders concluded in his book, "A Voyage to Terra Australis", that he did not believe Saxemberg existed at all. However, he noted sometime later that he met the Earl  of Caledon in 1810, who showed Flinders a log extract from Captain Long of the sloop "Columbus". The log, dated 22 September 1809 noted: None of the captains who reported seeing Saxemberg actually landed.