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Too bad, really. From what i heard it was a real Shangri-La, or perhaps
Atlantis?

Its disappearance proves the Bermuda triangle has migrated.
Philip


On 11/23/2012 02:24 PM, Bill Morris wrote:
>
> You wrote "Have a look today; it may be gone tomorrow!"
>
> On Google Earth, the place where Sandy I. was supposed to be is now
> occupied by a digital black hole.
>
> However, it appears in about the same position in the Times Atlas
> Comprehensive Edition of 1968 as "Sable" (Sand), though the position
> of Sable I. (Ile de Sable) in the gazeteer is given as 19d15m S,
> 163d48m E, to the north of New Caledonia. Where Ile de Sable appears
> on the map (also in the 2000 edition)there is also nothing except a
> dark patch (of shallows?), unless what I interpet as cloud is a patch
> of breakers.
>
> In the Atlas of the South Pacific, your Sandy Island appears just as
> "Sandy", so maybe it was there at one time as a bank and has now
> dispersed, perhaps like Isle de Sable further east.
>
> Bill Morris
> Pukenui
> New Zealand
>


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