Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts
awi.de52 points by tannhaeuser 7 hours ago
52 points by tannhaeuser 7 hours ago
This appears to be a relatively scientific institution and yet they don't use the internationally recognized unit of measurement the American football field. I have no idea how big this island is now.
It's a little cryptic, but I believe this passage "slightly longer than the Polarstern with its 118 metres and about twice as wide"
tells us it's the size of two Polarsterns laid side by side.
I still don't know what that is in terms of football fields, I assume you mean United States and not Canada, but maybe someone else can help out as I've gone as far as I can.
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.
I have no interest in finding islands, but it seems like it would be pretty easy to find icebergs that never move.
Such a search could still be run to predict new islands before they are discovered in the same way?
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!
Appears that nobody ever ran a search. Probably because everyone just assumed there was no new land to discover.
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=ic
I notice that this area isn’t fully imaged. Just around the known existing islands.
From the article: “The team will publish the exact position of the island once the naming process is complete”
Is this the start of a Jules Verne novel? Really though super cool
Or something darker.. R'yleh where dead Cthulu lies dreaming is out there near Point Nemo too ;)
Or something even darker than that...
What if this story took place on a planet where the inhabitants collectively decided to value at-all-costs economic growth over a sustainable ecosystem, resulting in a situation where they were losing over a trillion metric tons of ice per year and that is what caused the mysterious island to be revealed...?
Or something even darker: So basically Epstein island without the child sexual abuse?
> the scientists and ship's crew were surprised by the sudden appearance of an island that had previously only been marked as a danger zone on the available nautical charts.
There is definitely cursed pirates treasure on that island
Uncharted island found. Charted.
How much would an island like that set me back?
Dibs
Interesting, I would normally expect small islands like this to disappear.
Would be interesting if they find more info on the satellite images they are examining.
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