This is the real Fantasy Island -- it's a fake

Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 15:23 in Earth & Climate

By Megan GannonLiveScienceLast year, a group of Australian researchers "undiscovered" an island the size of Manhattan in the South Pacific.A mysterious place called Sandy Island had popped up on maps, northwest of New Caledonia. It even showed up as a black polygon on Google Earth. But when scientists sailed there last November, they found open water instead of solid ground.In an obituary for the ...    

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