{"id":1830232,"date":"2024-04-25T12:54:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1830232"},"modified":"2024-04-25T12:54:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:54:06","slug":"the-map-men-on-phantom-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/04\/the-map-men-on-phantom-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"The Map Men on Phantom Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Phantom Island of Google Maps\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PVemGumEEgo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s no shortage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/02\/in-search-of-lost-islands\/\">books about phantom islands<\/a>\u2014islands on the map that later turn out never to have existed\u2014but now the Map Men have done <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PVemGumEEgo\">a video about them<\/a>, using as a narrative hook the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandy_Island,_New_Caledonia\">Sandy Island<\/a>, and how it managed to stay on maps into the Google Maps era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no shortage of books about phantom islands\u2014islands on the map that later turn out never to have existed\u2014but now the Map Men have done a video about them, using as a narrative hook the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/04\/the-map-men-on-phantom-islands\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,110],"tags":[936,192,617,111],"class_list":["post-1830232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-map-errors","tag-fun","tag-funny","tag-map-men","tag-phantom-islands","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":320,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/01\/phantom-islands\/","url_meta":{"origin":1830232,"position":0},"title":"Phantom Islands","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 January 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Here are two pieces on phantom 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New Mexican has a piece\u00a0on\u00a0The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching, which came out in the U.K. in late 2016\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Phantom Atlas","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/phantom-atlas-114x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/phantom-atlas-114x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/phantom-atlas-114x150.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/phantom-atlas-114x150.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, 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