Emerald Island (phantom)

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The Emerald Island is a phantom island reported by some early explorers to lie between Australia and Antarctica and south of Macquarie Island, eg by the ship Emerald in December 1821. It was supposed to be a small but high or mountainous island at Latitude 57° or 57° 30' South and Longitude 162° East.

It appeared on a map as late as 1987 in a desk calendar book (with atlas) published by American Express. The abyssal plain on the ocean floor beneath the supposed location of this phantom island is named Emerald Basin.

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• Reference in an 1882 paper of the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
• Reference in an 1890 paper of the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand