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Pitcairn Island Position
From: Gordon Talge
Date: 2004 Sep 17, 17:34 -0700
From: Gordon Talge
Date: 2004 Sep 17, 17:34 -0700
Nories's 1844 Edition has "Pitcarin's Island" as
25deg 04min 00sec S 130deg 09min 30sec W.
Had an idea a few years ago for a novel, after reading
a book about lost islands. The author researched hundreds
of islands that people visited and are no longer on the
map for various reasons.
Anyway, my story has a high school teacher on a trip to
England shopping in a used bookstore and finds an old
navigation book where the owner from the 1800s had noted
the Lat and Long of an island he visited and a kind of handmade
sailing directions and a chart. Checking a modern
day chart the teacher finds nothing there but open ocean for
hundreds of miles way off any shipping lane in the South
Pacific. He decides upon returning to the States to order
some sat photos of the area in question from the Air Force.
He is informed that the area requestedis classified.
He then gets a visit from the FBI wanting to
know why he wants to know about this area and what he knows.
That is about as far as I got.
-- Gordon
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