Discussion

Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts

sudb: I assumed that satellite data would have been enough to know if something was an iceberg or land - wild that new land is still being discovered!

bhouston: What are the gps coordinates? I want to look it up on Google Maps.Generally somewhere around here:https://maps.app.goo.gl/wy1PNDWcvP7h9d4j7?g_st=icI notice that this area isn’t fully imaged. Just around the known existing islands.

bulletsvshumans: Dibs

nl: It's not explicitly stated but it seems that this island was not charted because the area it was in had previously been full of icebergs.> On the satellite images analysed, the island could hardly be distinguished from the numerous icebergs drifting around in the immediate vicinity due to its ice cover.

restlessforge: Is this the start of a Jules Verne novel? Really though super cool

robot-wrangler: Or something darker.. R'yleh where dead Cthulu lies dreaming is out there near Point Nemo too ;)

phire: Appears that nobody ever ran a search. Probably because everyone just assumed there was no new land to discover.