St. Matthew Island (phantom island)

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Die St. Matthäusinsel ist eine Phantominsel im südlichen Atlantischen Ozean, die vom sechzehnten bis in das frühe zwanzigste Jahrhundert in Nachschlagewerken und auf Landkarten eingetragen war. rdf:langString
L'isola di San Matteo è un'isola fantasma nell'Atlantico meridionale che figura su numerose mappe e opere di divulgazione dal XVI secolo ai primi anni del XX. rdf:langString
L’île Saint-Mathieu est une île fantôme, indiquée sur plusieurs cartes du début du XVIe siècle au début du XXe siècle, environ 1 000 kilomètres au nord-est de l'île de l'Ascension, approximativement à 2°S et 8°W. Elle aurait été découverte par des explorateurs portugais en 1516, le jour de la Saint-Mathieu. García Jofre de Loaísa l'aurait visitée le 20 octobre 1525, au cours d'un voyage en direction des Moluques. Elle apparaît sous ce nom sur plusieurs cartes à partir du début du XVIe siècle, notamment la carte du continent africain Africae Tabula Nova d'Abraham Ortelius. James Cook tente en vain de l'atteindre en 1775, au cours de son deuxième voyage. Peter Leonard (1833) indique que l'erreur pourrait venir d'une confusion avec l'île d'Annobón, située à la même latitude, mais à 5°38' E de rdf:langString
St Matthew Island is a phantom island once thought to lie roughly one thousand kilometers northeast of Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. It appeared on navigational charts until as late as the early twentieth century. It was supposedly located at approximately 2°S 8°W, and was alleged to have been discovered by the Portuguese on St. Matthew's Day 1516. It was shown and named on several maps going back to the beginning of the sixteenth century, and it was supposedly visited by García Jofre de Loaísa on 20 October 1525 while on a voyage to the Moluccas. It appeared on early Portuguese charts and world maps, and appears on Ortelius' 1570 map of the African continent Africae Tabula Nova. It thereafter regularly featured on charts and maps, and though it began to disappear from standard c rdf:langString
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rdf:langString Die St. Matthäusinsel ist eine Phantominsel im südlichen Atlantischen Ozean, die vom sechzehnten bis in das frühe zwanzigste Jahrhundert in Nachschlagewerken und auf Landkarten eingetragen war.
rdf:langString L’île Saint-Mathieu est une île fantôme, indiquée sur plusieurs cartes du début du XVIe siècle au début du XXe siècle, environ 1 000 kilomètres au nord-est de l'île de l'Ascension, approximativement à 2°S et 8°W. Elle aurait été découverte par des explorateurs portugais en 1516, le jour de la Saint-Mathieu. García Jofre de Loaísa l'aurait visitée le 20 octobre 1525, au cours d'un voyage en direction des Moluques. Elle apparaît sous ce nom sur plusieurs cartes à partir du début du XVIe siècle, notamment la carte du continent africain Africae Tabula Nova d'Abraham Ortelius. James Cook tente en vain de l'atteindre en 1775, au cours de son deuxième voyage. Peter Leonard (1833) indique que l'erreur pourrait venir d'une confusion avec l'île d'Annobón, située à la même latitude, mais à 5°38' E de longitude. Elle disparaît progressivement des cartes entre le début du XIXe siècle et le début du XXe siècle.
rdf:langString St Matthew Island is a phantom island once thought to lie roughly one thousand kilometers northeast of Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. It appeared on navigational charts until as late as the early twentieth century. It was supposedly located at approximately 2°S 8°W, and was alleged to have been discovered by the Portuguese on St. Matthew's Day 1516. It was shown and named on several maps going back to the beginning of the sixteenth century, and it was supposedly visited by García Jofre de Loaísa on 20 October 1525 while on a voyage to the Moluccas. It appeared on early Portuguese charts and world maps, and appears on Ortelius' 1570 map of the African continent Africae Tabula Nova. It thereafter regularly featured on charts and maps, and though it began to disappear from standard charts starting in the early nineteenth century, it was not completely removed from charts until the early twentieth century. Peter Mundy refers in 1656 to St Matthew Island when writing about Ascension, with some words changed to be more understandable in brackets: [So] now [again] concerning the Ascention birds [also], [that] can neither fly nor [swim]. The [island] [being] [about] 300 leagues from the coast of [Guinea] and 160 leagues from the [island] of St Matheo, the nearest land to it, the question is, how they [should] [be] generated, [whether] created there from the beginning, or [that] the earth [produce] them of its [own] accord, as mice, [serpents], flies, [worms], etts, insects, or [whether] the nature of the earth and climate have [altered] the [shape] and nature of some other [foul] into this, I leave it to the learned to dispute of. — Peter Mundy, The Travels of Peter Mundy Captain James Cook tried but failed to find St. Matthew in 1775 during his second voyage. Both Peter Leonard (1833) and H.C. Adams (1883) suggest that the error may have arisen from a confusion with Annobón Island, which lies at the same latitude but at 5°38′E longitude.
rdf:langString L'isola di San Matteo è un'isola fantasma nell'Atlantico meridionale che figura su numerose mappe e opere di divulgazione dal XVI secolo ai primi anni del XX.
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