In fact, the island of 'Vostok' belongs to the Republic of Kiribati, which is an 'archipelago' (a close group of islands), and because it is a triangular island, people compare it to the famous Bermuda Triangle in the Atlantic Ocean. Or it is an entity like a black hole in which everything that reaches it disappears. From military bases to mysterious islands, there's no shortage of censored locations that the digital mapping service keeps hidden from users. It's not uncommon to find whole areas blacked out on Google Maps. The spot was nothing but a deserted island called Vostok Island, but its appearance in black helped to weave many legends around it, and strange theories were woven around it, including that it is a huge drainage hole through which ocean water flows into the ground. This could be an explanation or Google may have actually censored the island. Um, maybe you should save the righteous indignation for a time when you didn’t leave a made-up island on your maps for more than a century, National Geographic.Some said that it is a black hole that swallows everyone who approaches it, and the other indicated that it is a secret or military project and that Google may be hiding its truth, and some of them compare it to the Bermuda Triangle. In fact, the Society said that it had had its doubts about Sandy Island since 2000, which had led it to remove the label-but not the island’s outline!-from its own maps. The National Geographic Society was a little huffier, sniffing that the media circus was hardly a “new” discovery. In response to the furor over Sandy Island, Google issued a vague statement about how the world is always changing, and the island soon vanished from Google Earth.

In 1875, an exasperated British naval captain named Frederick Evans got tired of all the phantom Pacific islands and erased more than 120 of them from the Crown’s nautical charts. Captain Benjamin Morrell, its “discoverer,” described lots of hard-to-believe adventures on the seven seas and was called “the biggest liar in the Pacific” by other explorers of his day. Until 1910, the International Date Line took a little jog to avoid Morrell Island, another dot of land that never was. Remarkably, the label stuck around in atlases until 1928, even though the mountains didn’t exist. An African mountain range with a name straight out of a Tarzan movie, the Mountains of Kong, appeared on British maps in 1798, based on scattered reports that had reached surveyor James Rennell. This isn’t the first time a map mistake like this has been propagated down through the centuries. The error kept getting propagated on new maps for well over a century, and the island is far enough from established shipping lanes that no one ever noticed it was gone. But their dotted “Sandy Island” was later noticed and enshrined by mapmakers, who probably conflated it with another Sandy Island that Captain Cook had noted about 260 miles to the east. It's unclear why the island is blurred, although there are long-standing issues around whether the territory belongs to Russia or the USA. The company has kept tight lipped over why it obscures the icy landmass. Jeannette Island, in the East Siberian Sea, appears as a black smudge on the search giant's digital map tool. It could have been part of a reef, or maybe they were off-course. A remote Russian island sparked a Google Maps mystery after users discovered it's censored. What did they see? There’s no way to be sure. In 1876, a whaling ship called the Velocity drew some dotted lines on the map at this point, noting “heavy breakers” and “sandy islets” in the ship’s log.

Google Maps and the like arent real-time images, but may get updated. In the following week, geographers quickly determined that Sandy Island hadn’t disappeared: It had never really existed in the first place. The secrets of Antarctica, what is really there and what is kept secret amongst.

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