Torca Island

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Torca Island was a phantom island said to be located in the Indian Ocean that had many inhabitants. It purportedly vanished in either an earthquake or a volcano in 1693, with the survivors escaping to a nearby island called Amboy in canoes.

[edit] References

  • Vincent Gaddis, Invisible Horizons. Chilton Books. New York. 1965.
  • Clark Barnaby Firestone, The Coasts of Illusion: A Study of Travel Tales. Harper Books, 1924.
  • William Shepard Walsh, A Handy Book of Curious Information. J. B. Lippincott, 1913.
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