NASA satellites captured a "phantom island" before it vanished as suddenly as it appeared. The landmass emerged in early 2023 off the coast of Azerbaijan following a volcanic eruption. However ...

Did they ever exist in the first place? These imaginary landmasses are called “phantom islands.” The strange cartographic features pop up for a number of reasons. Sometimes these nonexistent ...

The sizeable phantom island in the Coral Sea is shown as Sandy Island on Google Earth and Google maps and is supposedly midway between Australia and the French-governed New Caledonia. The Times ...