Aurora Islands

The Aurora Islands were probably non-existent, but over a hundred years on charts recorded Islands in the Atlantic (so-called " phantom islands ").

For the first time this group was sighted by three islands in 1762 allegedly by the Spanish ship Aurora from, which was located on the way from Lima to Cadiz, one more time to find the 1794 Corvette Atrevida, which had been specially sent the islands. Your specified location was east of Cape Horn, about halfway between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia on 53 ° S 48 ° W. Finally, a review of the 1856 Islands has been claimed. From then on they have been described as a semi-mystical lands, but until the 1870s continue to be found on maps of the southern Atlantic.

It is not certain whether the Aurora Islands actually existed or whether the recurring reports about them were the result of optical illusions or atmospheric phenomena on the open ocean. According to another theory, they are identical to those located west of South Georgia Shag Rocks.

The Aurora Islands are the subject of Hippolyte 's Iceland titled story from the year 2001 by Barbara Hodgson. In this they are rediscovered by the hero of the book. Known nor is the story " The Adventures Gordon Pym " by Edgar Allan Poe, looking in on an episode Pym and his comrades in vain for the island.