St Matthew Island (phantom island)
- St Matthew Island (phantom island)
St Matthew Island is an 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 Garcia Jofre Loyosa on 20 October 1525 while on a voyage to the Moluccas, though it was shown and named on several maps going back to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It appeared on early Portuguese charts and world maps, and appears on Ortelius' 1570 map of the African continent "Africa Tabula Nova". It thereafter regularly featured on charts and maps, and though it began to disappear from charts starting in the early nineteenth century, it was not completely removed from charts until the early twentieth century.
External links
* [http://www.bweaver.nom.sh/maps/jansson.htm The St Helena virtual library and archive]
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