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The island that existed only on maps
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Sandy Island sat confidently on digital maps for years, tricking modern navigational systems into routing ships around a totally fictional piece of land near New Caledonia. When researchers finally sailed there in 2012, they found deep ocean instead of sandy beaches. It was a centuries-old typo that somehow survived into the modern era of satellite imaging.
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